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With only two weeks left in the Biden administration, officials hurried to finalize a plan in the city where George Floyd was murdered. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted on […]

Byline: Sydney Page The cat tour started small. John Edwards thought it would be hilarious - and somewhat ridiculous - to lead a walk through his Minneapolis neighborhood admiring the [...]

The Justice Department's devastating findings left the city searching for next steps. Some residents found little closure. The wounds of Minneapolis are far from healed. T.J. Johnson, a resident of [...]

A deal with state human-rights officials calls for the city's police to rein in the use of force and cease practices that critics say have been racially discriminatory. MINNEAPOLIS -- [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - George Floyd's May 2020 death beneath Derek Chauvin's knee cast a harsh national spotlight on the Twin Cities, exposing what people of color here have [...]

Minneapolis, the site of the women's Final Four, has long produced outstanding players and rallied around its W.N.B.A. team, the Lynx. Update: South Carolina beat UConn to win its second [...]

The agreement would resolve a nearly three-week standoff that closed schools for 30,000 students. Educators and school district officials in Minneapolis reached a tentative deal on Friday morning to end [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - Mayor Jacob Frey, D, had barely begun his event on public safety when a woman confronted him about the violence that has erupted across the [...]

Byline: W. Seth Martin You felt it the day of the verdict in Minneapolis: The murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, and the accountability it signaled, brought for [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - A year after George Floyd's death sent millions across the country into the streets in some of the largest sustained protests in American history, the [...]

Charles Adams, a former police officer, and the Minneapolis North team are warily moving forward after the Derek Chauvin verdict offered a rebuke to one police killing in their community. [...]

The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for Mr. Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., last week. MINNEAPOLIS [...]

Byline: Clyde McGrady MINNEAPOLIS - Lavish Metger had to be here. The 28-year-old had spent the past two months vacationing in Colombia, far from the bitter cold weather and the [...]

Local stations are packing their daytime schedules with wall-to-wall coverage of witness testimony and analysis from legal experts. Viewers tuning into the Minneapolis NBC affiliate expecting to see Hoda Kotb [...]

Victoria Knott, a criminal defense lawyer, gestured toward the empty streets in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, just before the start of the 12th day of the Derek Chauvin trial. There [...]

Byline: Suzette Hackney, Columnist, USA TODAY National columnist Suzette Hackney is in Minneapolis for the trial of Derek Chauvin, reporting on the people, the scene and the mood. MINNEAPOLIS - [...]

Minneapolis was a city of protest and remembrance during the first days of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer who is on trial in the death [...]

In the South Minneapolis neighborhood where protesters burned the Third Precinct police station and numerous commercial properties in the wake of George Floyd's death last year, two longtime residents, Phillip [...]

The spot in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed speaks to those who visit. MINNEAPOLIS -- I arrived in Minneapolis on a rainy Saturday, the city quiet and still, in [...]

As the trial of a former officer accused of murdering Mr. Floyd starts, residents and community leaders have struggled to reach consensus on how to radically change public safety, and [...]

Byline: Jared Goyette MINNEAPOLIS - A coalition of progressive groups hopes to gather enough signatures to put a question on the November ballot asking voters to replace the Minneapolis police [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey and Toluse Olorunnipa MINNEAPOLIS - The city of Minneapolis will pay a record $27 million to the family of George Floyd to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit related [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - The ruins of buildings destroyed in the fiery unrest that erupted here after George Floyd's death in May have mostly been cleared, leaving scars of [...]

Byline: Tim Elfrink In Minneapolis, the penultimate night of 2020 had a distressingly familiar feel. A man's death at the hands of police. An angry crowd demanding answers. And a [...]

Victor Blue worked with the New York Times reporter Sheri Fink at the start of the pandemic, documenting Covid as it raged through hospitals in New York. ''We realized pretty [...]

The retention and recruitment problems that many police departments have experienced in recent years are especially pronounced after four Minneapolis officers were charged with Mr. Floyd's death. MINNEAPOLIS -- Nearly [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - At first, it sounded like fireworks, a loud crackling noise that has become the daily soundtrack of the city in recent weeks. But when David [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- When Shari Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined Minneapolis neighborhood known as a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself, she went [...]

Byline: Heather Worthington Lead Heather Worthington is a consultant and the former director of long-range planning for the City of Minneapolis. Growing up, my parents owned a single-family home in [...]

Byline: Sheree R. Curry, Special to USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS - Like many African Americans before him, George Floyd, who was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and raised in Houston, migrated [...]

Byline: Keith A. Mayes The shooting of Justine Damond, a white woman, and the prosecution and conviction of Mohamed Noor, a black police officer, was a historic moment in Minneapolis. [...]

Byline: Sydney Page In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, flames raged through the 3rd Precinct police station in Minneapolis on Thursday. Neighborhood stores were ransacked and closed amid widespread [...]

Byline: Samuel G. Freedman For Print Use Only. Six blocks and 75 years away from the Minneapolis street where George Floyd suffocated beneath the knee of a police officer, a [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey and Mark Berman MINNEAPOLIS - Leanne Reyes had heard about the video of George Floyd's final minutes, but she could not bring herself to watch it. Almost [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman Police chiefs across the United States, many of whom have been pushing their officers to de-escalate tense situations and decrease their use of force, responded with disgust [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Last summer, Ann Kim announced that she would open a restaurant inspired by a trip to Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico, where she had tasted handmade heirloom blue-corn tortillas [...]

Byline: Haisten Willis When Nicole Valentine and her husband left Washington for Minneapolis in 1997, they said they were thrilled about their adopted city. The couple were able to buy [...]