Plans to reopen a long stretch of Shepard/Warner Road near downtown St. Paul on Monday have been thwarted by heavy rain that’s sent river levels rising once again.
Construction crews put up a second, taller metal fence around the 173-year-old John H. Stevens House in Minnehaha Regional Park after having three separate fires.
For the first time this year, the Twin Cities metro has reached "extreme drought" conditions. Unusually low water levels on the Mississippi River are causing cruise ships and barges to get stuck.