Anoka News

Sara Jane Olson, the Minnesota woman who served seven years in prison for her involvement in high-profile 1970s radicalism, is edging back into public life - this time voluntarily - as she and a friend petition the Obama administration to reduce disparities in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine.

ANOKA, Minn. - A former Minneapolis police officer accused of using social media to try to lure girls into sexual encounters has been charged with five new felony charges - bringing his number of alleged victims to 20.

A Coon Rapids hospital plans to build the county's longest skyway. A local college recently opened a skyway and another will rise in Anoka.

The city has given preliminary approval for an upscale development that would be Anoka's first large single-family project since the early 1990s.

Winter's barely over, but temperatures in Dakota County are expected to reach into the 90s on Tuesday, and the National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch.

The independent streak in this northern county's politics, known for making incumbents uncomfortable, is popping up in day-after reviews of the Minnesota House's vote to legalize gay marriage.

Information provided by American Red Cross Teresa Hazeman of Anoka and Dave Nelson of Albertville have been named as recipients of the 2013 American Red Cross Heroes Award.

The Winter Storm Warning late this evening was cancelled from the western and northern metro, Carver, Hennepin and Anoka were taken out of the warning area.

The city of Blaine's Safety Services Division will sell bike helmets and host a fitting session from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 10801 Town Square Drive NE.