Anoka News

A rendering of the new Anoka Castle Field, which will host a baseball game for the first time on July 3. The first baseball game on the new Castle Field will be played on Wednesday evening, July 3. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site near Anoka High School will start at 6 p.m., and the game will begin at 6:30.

Staffers for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will be in Waite Park June 26 for office hours.

She had spent weeks watching the same classmate win the honor, bestowed daily to the stillest sleeper during her preschool's naptime.

Jacob Vevea was a rising leader in the Navy before a noncombat shoulder injury forced him to leave the service.

Five people were injured, one seriously, in a rollover crash on Highway 61 on the North Shore Sunday afternoon, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Duet singing, improv, poetry, foolishness, and the News from Lake Wobegon. A Prairie Home Companion's kicks off the Radio Romance Tour 2013, a 26-city, 27-concert, 30-day, coast-to-coast bus tour that will run from Washington to Maine.

ANOKA, Minn. - A Coon Rapids man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing his girlfriend in 2011.

The Twin Cities have been cited as one of the top areas in the country for gay acceptance and visibility for many years now, but it wasn't until 2010 that the metro area's current film festival devoted entirely to the LGBT community kicked off.

Kelli Houlehan and Brendan Veerman will be in the upcoming production of “Barefoot in the Park” at the Lyric Arts Main Street Stage in Anoka.

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.