Hennepin Healthcare takes dramatic steps to close $50 million deficit, introduced sales tax revenue...
The chair of the Hennepin Healthcare Systems Hospital Board says the goal is to save $50 million in the first quarter of this year and $150 million by the fall.
Farmington residents push back against “hyperscale” data center
A group of Dakota County residents are pushing back on plans for a massive data center, and it's one of many such campaigns in communities across Minnesota.
Eden Prairie woman charged with felony car theft after gas station incident
An Eden Prairie woman is charged with felony vehicle theft after allegedly taking a running car from a Flying Cloud Drive gas station.
Minneapolis’ public hospital plans to cut 100 beds in latest HCMC budget cuts
Hennepin Healthcare is planning to reduce its volume of hospital care at HCMC in Minneapolis to help close a $50 million budget gap by the end of March. Currently, patients are using 435 of 490 total beds at the safety net hospital, officials said, but the volume going forward will be capped at just 390 beds.
Woman charged with murder in December shooting death
MINNEAPOLIS — A Hopkins woman is now behind bars after evading an arrest warrant for at least a month in connection with a fatal shooting late last year in Minneapolis. Champaine Mack, 36, was taken into custody Tuesday evening, stemming from the Dec. 10 shooting in Uptown. According to...
Lowell Pastor Part of ICE Protests in Minneapolis
On a Thursday in mid-January, Rev. Shannon Jammal-Hollemans saw a post on social media calling for clergy to travel to Minneapolis to rally in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities there. A few days later, she was in a vehicle with six other Michigan clergy members traveling to the...
Wisconsin take note: Here’s how Minneapolis parents prepared for ICE
Before Operation Metro Surge sent thousands of armed federal agents into Minneapolis, terrorizing families and spreading chaos and violence in formerly peaceful residential neighborhoods, local parent organizations were already setting up networks to provide mutual aid and safely transport children of immigrants to...
Woman confronts anti-ICE protesters in Richfield, video shows
Video taken by a community member on Tuesday shows a woman confronting a group of people protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on a pedestrian bridge in Richfield.
Chaotic scenes at Hennepin County Government Center as ICE make arrest
Chaotic scenes were observed in Hennepin County Government Center as plain-clothed ICE agents chased and then arrested a young man attending a court hearing on Tuesday. The scenes were sparked just before noon, when an 18-year-old man – later identified as Junior de Jesus Herrera Berrios – was pursued through the...
Troubled patient assaults Burnsville hospital workers, dies in jail
A 38-year-old patient in a mental health crisis broke off a metal rod from his emergency room bed and assaulted four workers at Ridges Hospital in Burnsville last week before dying in police custody. The patient, who had been under observation in the hospital for suicide risk, died a few...
