New Hope News

School District 287 -- a consortium of 13 metro districts -- has begun negotiations with Robbinsdale schools to buy the former Hosterman Middle School in New Hope.

W ith all things green riding a wave of popularity, a new garbage hauler specializing in small "green" trucks is hoping to cash in on the trend.

A crash involving a school bus and two other cars slowed traffic Friday afternoon on Interstate Hwy.

General Mills, Golden Valley, declared a quarterly dividend of 49 cents per share, payable Feb.

The Robbinsdale School District is working harder to sell itself. Concerned about enrollment declines and the loss of students to private schools, charter schools and other districts via the open-enrollment route, the district has devised a marketing plan.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue on Tuesday said a New Hope businessman has been charged in Hennepin County with failing to file tax returns.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 6:11 pm US/Central Reporting Maya Nishikawa ST. PAUL The Centers for Disease Control is reminding folks to keep their guard up when it comes to holidays and the flu.

Wednesday at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka. The shots and mist were available for kids aged six-months to 9-years-old. Health officials were prepared to handle up to 500 people an hour during the clinic hours.

A New Hope man is accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl at a home day care run by his mother.

Minnesota's primary election would be held a month earlier next year under legislation that three state senators today said they will introduce to comply with a change in federal law.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 6:46 pm US/Central Reporting Bill Hudson GOLDEN VALLEY 1 of 1 To help encourage more volunteerism, food donations and to find permanent solutions to hunger, General Mills, Cargill and Land 'O Lakes are teaming up.

In the Anoka-Hennepin and Robbinsdale school districts, voters still feel the sting of recent school closings.

"This is kind of chancy. We've never done anything this wide and big," warned Roger Bacon.

Share + Oct 17, 2009 7:09 pm US/Central NEW HOPE, Minn. Minnesota food shelves are hurting.

A New Hope man was charged Thursday with malicious punishment of a child, accused of beating his 12-year-old son because the boy had put on some stick-on tattoos.

Lucille Clara Stage, 75, of New Hope, Minn. and formerly of Sleepy Eye, Minn., died on Monday, Oct.

St. Paul, Minn. -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is seeking comments on a water quality improvement report for Meadow Lake in Hennepin County.

The window-washing company whose two workers fell -- one of them to his death -- from three stories at Methodist Hospital in St.

Two nursing home employees will not face charges in connection with the death of military chaplain Rev.

A Minnesota Department of Health investigation finds there was neglect by healthcare workers at a New Hope nursing home on the day that a Minnesota priest who'd been injured in Iraq fell at the facility.