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The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has charged Dijon Jacquez Davis with second degree murder for the killing of Justin “Juice” Marshall in a shooting that took place outside of Mortimer’s on July 25, 2025.

A large crowd gathered  for a community meeting at the epicenter of Uptown’s latest struggle on March 19 to discuss how to take back a failing commercial district.

The Pillsbury Avenue South bridge will be seeing construction begin the week of April 6, with substantial completion expected by December 2026. The project team will keep the community informed throughout …

A plan to move the Minneapolis Sailing Center to the northwest corner of Bde Maka Ska is unlikely after a presentation to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s planning committee revealed the land will be difficult to build on. 

Neighborhood news - March 2026

JOIN HOMEGROWN MINNEAPOLIS FOOD COUNCIL Do you garden, cook, eat, own or work in a food business, visit or engage with a food shelf? Are you passionate about sustainable growing, preventing wasted …

Good Neighbor: Buckthorn be gone

Jim Nicholas used to commute to work by bike using the Lake Harriet bike path. In early spring, he’d catch whiffs of blooming flowers and admire the new shoots from trees. 

Uptown in crisis

Uptown’s once vibrant commercial district is being pushed to the brink, leaving struggling business owners pleading for help. Community members and business owners have been voicing concerns …

A section of Minnehaha Parkway is closed through fall 2027 for the City of Minneapolis to rehabilitate the Nicollet Avenue bridge over Minnehaha Creek. Trails under the bridge will stay open, but …

Beginning 10 p.m. Fri, Feb. 27, I-394 will close in both directions between downtown Minneapolis and Hwy 100 until 5 a.m. Mon, March 2. The I-394 weekend closure is to allow crews to remove the Penn …

Teachers and parents shed tears and asked neighbors at a community meeting for more help and resources as U.S. federal agents leave a long-lasting impact on schools. 

“Hennepin Avenue is back, and better than ever,” Mayor Jacob Frey proclaimed on Oct. 31, 2025. A month later, the reconstructed thoroughfare started visibly struggling with open drug use and …

Neighborhood news - Feb 2026

ONLINE ENGLISH CLASSES OFFERED Lyndale’s Education Program has moved English classes online for the safety of our students. They are looking for online classroom volunteers for our morning classes …

Last Halloween, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey optimistically pledged, “Hennepin Avenue is back and better than ever." But anyone walking that street into Uptown knows that is not the case.

Waiting tables in St. Louis Park, studying engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, snowboarding in the mountains of Chile. It’s the life of Linden Hills native Iris Pflum that has brought her to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. 

Agate Housing and Services welcomed additional residents back to Metro Inn on Feb. 2 after a four-alarm fire damaged 15 of its 38 housing units in October 2024.

This year's Ice Shanty project on Lake Harriet/Bde Uman opened the same weekend that Alex Pretti was shot and killed in southwest Minneapolis by ICE agents. It continues through this weekend, closing …

Get free snow shoveling this winter courtesy of the City of Minneapolis Public Works Department which is partnering with several neighborhoods throughout Minneapolis for qualified residents. It’s …

The Good Grocer opened its cafe space for a three-hour “moment of healing” on Jan. 28 to help Whittier neighbors and visiting mourners process the slaying of Lyndale resident Alex Pretti by U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez on Jan. 24. 

A city already filled with tension, anger, and grief is rocked by another shooting and death at the hands of ICE agents.

Neighborhood news - Jan 2026

CHICKADEE PARK The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) officially renamed the 28th Street Tot Lot to Chickadee Park on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Chickadee Park is located at 175 28th St. E, …

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