Maple Grove News

With the Metro Gang Strike Force shut down indefinitely, its reputation shattered by investigations into its operations and revelations of questionable practices, Hennepin County law enforcement officials have been meeting privately to consider an alternative strategy to fight gangs in the county.

A series of drug raids across the Twin Cities this week highlights what authorities say is a growing national trend: Sophisticated pot-growing operations at homes in quiet suburban neighborhoods.

Eighteen people were charged in federal court Thursday in connection with a large indoor marijuana growing operation that netted over 3,300 plants.

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In busting apart a Twin Cities, marijuana-growing operation, officers seized more than 3,300 plants, $225,000 and made 18 arrests.

Honeywell intends to close its Maple Grove facility, where it makes fire alarm systems and other products, in the fourth quarter.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 12:40 pm US/Central 1 of 1 On June 30, search warrants for several Twin Cities locations help seize more than 3,300 marijuana plants worth more than $6 million.

Four Twin Cities groups say Minnesota spent too much of its $600 million in federal stimulus money building new highways and too little fixing the roads it has and adding public transit.

Ten Minnesota natives were selected on the second day of the NHL draft. Right wing Zach Budish of Edina was the first Minnesotan off the board.

What: The consecration ceremony for the Raja Gopura starts with a procession at 10:30 a.m. today, with the blessing at noon.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. -- More than a decade after planning began, the Hindu Temple in Maple Grove is officially opening this weekend.

MAPPS , the association of private geospatial firms, will hold its annual summer conference at the Ocean Edge Resort and Club in Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 25-29, 2009, featuring sessions on best business practices, surviving natural disasters, ownership transition, staying a successful small business, emerging technologies, new ...

Maple Grove Republican Kurt Zellers is promising to respect the taxpayers' money and find ways to make government work better as the new leader of his party in the Minnesota House.Zellers won about 70 percent of the votes Tuesday.He replaces Marty Seifert, who's preparing to run for governor.Zellers says he will focus on raising money and ...

ST. PAUL a ' A rural southern Minnesotan and a Twin Cities suburban lawmaker who grew up in rural North Dakota are the main contenders to become Minnesota House Republican leader.

E leven years after the Hindu Society of Minnesota picked out a cornfield near Maple Grove as the spot for its new home, one of the largest Hindu temples in North America celebrates its completion this weekend.

A recent road rage survey says Twin Cities drivers are the fifth least courteous in the country.

Two people have been charged for their role in a hit and run in Champlin Sunday that killed a mother of two.

The driver who allegedly hit and killed a Champlin woman in a crosswalk over the weekend now faces felony charges for his role in the hit-and-run. Christopher Mark Beussman told police he knew he was drunk when he got behind the wheel of the vehicle that allegedly killed the 44-year-old mother of two, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday ...

Health officials have confirmed a student has tested positive for H1N1 at a Maple Grove school Tuesday.

The Hindu Society of America is celebrating completion of a Hindu temple in Maple Grove.