With their three boys grown, empty nesters Jeanne and Peter Crain decided to trade their Edina digs for a smaller home near Lake Harriet, one city over. "We spent all of our time in Minneapolis," ...

President Barack Obama continued to denounce Republicans in the last speech of his two-day trip to Minnesota. In his address to 3,500 people at the Lake Harriet Band Shell late Friday morning, the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis wintertime staple is back once more – this time, with renewed hope. As the Ice Shanty Art Project enters its 21st year, it's coming off arguably its toughest year – when ...

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Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. Reg ...

A polar vortex sun and below-zero wind chills marked the opening day for the Art Shanty Projects on Lake Harriet. “Oh, I think it’s amazing,” says Jenn Olin-Hitt, visiting from Akron, Ohio. “Yeah, I ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Some swimmers will be thinking twice before dipping a toe in Lake Harriet, after seeing pictures of a huge, toothy fish reeled in recently by a teen angler. Charles Hansen, a neighbor of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Saturday was cold even for Minneapolis, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake to immerse themselves in art, make new friends — and try their ...