Oak Park Heights News

Despite the fact that as little as six months ago it was slated to be the home of a new Best Buy, a state tax judge considers a 14.8-acre parcel in the middle of Oak Park Heights' commercial district to be ...

The Starbucks located at 5980 Neal Ave. N. in Oak Park Heights is among the 600 company-owned stores slated to close by the first half of 2009.

Gazette photos by Andrew Wallmeyer When Xcel Energy's Allen S. King Plant became the first such facility to put a nest box on its stack 20 years ago, there were only three pairs of peregrine falcons nesting in ...

Gazette photo by Andrew Wallmeyer Benjamin Schreiber, 2, takes a turn in the driver's seat of a backhoe, one of the event's most popular vehicles on display at District 834's annual Big Truck Extravaganza, held ...

Representatives of Xcel Energy and the Raptor Resource Project are celebrating the 20th anniversary of a program that places peregrine falcon nest boxes on power plants.

SAUK RAPIDS - The city of Sauk Rapids is moving forward with its police chief search after successful interviews Friday.

Gazette photo by Steve Morris Vandals tagged a spot outside the Lowell Inn in downtown Stillwater recently.

Already buzzing with construction of a new $20 million skilled-care facility, Boutwells Landing approached the Oak Park Heights City Council Tuesday with plans for two other, significantly smaller projects.

Police in east metro communities are searching for suspects in what investigators call one of the worst cases of graffiti they've ever seen.

Gazette photo by Steve Morris The wall housing a dumpster between Edina Reality and Golden Crown Restaurant on Frontage Road in Stillwater is marked with graffiti.

Stillwater and Oak Park Heights police departments are asking for the public's help as they investigate 36 recent incidents of graffiti.

Sauk Rapids has selected four finalists for its police chief position, City Administrator Ross Olson said.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's environmental review of a proposed fly-ash landfill in West Lakeland Township is adequate, the agency's citizens board decided Tuesday.

“In response to the regulations, we've taken a somewhat proactive approach and come up with a comprehensive plan to address the issues”

Minnesota Power has begun a second season of construction at its Clay Boswell electric generating plant in northern Minnesota. via Business North

“If he wasn't there, it would have been someone else”

On Tuesday, May 6 Bruce Christenson was sentenced to life, with eligibility for parole in 30 years, for the jail cell killing of Carl Moyle. via Star News

“Whether we like it or not, it comes with more of a need for county services”

Ankle-deep mud. Sparks flying from welders' torches. Wind whistling through skeletons of steel beams. via Star Tribune

“The man who went into Carl's cell on Aug. 8, 2006, was not rational. ... He is not the man in this courtroom today.”

An Iron Range man charged with beating another man to death while both were prisoners in the Sherburne County jail pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday. via Star Tribune

Two alleged dog-collar thieves - wanted for crimes throughout the Midwest - were collared Tuesday by Oak Park Heights police. via St. Paul Pioneer Press

Two people accused of stealing dog collars from retailers in Indiana and Minnesota have been caught. via Wcco.com

Repairs to the Minnesota 36 bridge over Minnesota 95 in Oak Park Heights resume today, prompting detours that could last two weeks, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. via Twincities.com