Bill Lindeke

Last Friday at the St. Paul operations and maintenance facility in Lowertown, new staff officially graduated from the 10-week training program that prepared them to start operating light-rail trains around the Twin Cities.

Metro Transit’s labor crunch isn’t just for the front-of-the-house staff. There’s a separate staffing problem involving mechanics.

More than 60 years after it opened, the building's new apartments signal will bring residents and new life to the heart of the city.

More than 60 years after it opened, the building’s office-to-apartments renovation will bring residents and new life to the city.

It's impossible to ponder Halloween without peering through a layer of​​ sugary nostalgia, but it sure seems to me that things were different when I was young.

It’s an annual lesson in peer pressure, where some blocks of cities gain sugary trick-or-treat steam and others lie fallow.

Met Council: A complicated model finds that urban gains will continue, but at a slower pace than the past decade as economy boomed.

If Harris had prevailed last week, urban centers could have counted on an advocate in the White House – and political continuity, stability.

The measure of a city isn't found in its skyline, but in its local businesses. As any tourist knows, great cities burst with unique establishments

The Metro Independent Business Alliance, a Twin Cities force for business owners, couldn’t survive bottom-line pressures faced by members.