Canadian Pacific Holiday Train makes stop in Columbia Heights
The annual holiday train, filled with hundreds of thousands of holiday lights, is focused on helping local food banks throughout America.
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The annual holiday train, filled with hundreds of thousands of holiday lights, is focused on helping local food banks throughout America.
Two minutes was all it took for a pizza delivery driver to get his car stolen. It happened outside Pizza Man in Columbia Heights Friday night.
The Columbia Heights Police Department says David Alan Klint, 62, was last known to be staying in a facility in the Twin Cities area.
A tradition that has helped make the Twin Cities feel like home for families from Ecuador for almost 30 years now.
A 35-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty to killing a woman and injuring a man while driving drunk in Columbia Heights last summer.
A man was killed early Friday morning in a house fire in Columbia Heights.
In Columbia Heights, English learners now make up 44% of their student population. That's an 8% jump from last school year.
Minnesota is home to more than half a million immigrants. Census data show most of them came here from Mexico and Somalia. More recently though, we're seeing hundreds of people from Ecuador. Many of them are kids making their way through our schools. In Columbia Heights, English learners now make up 44% of the student population. WCCO's Kirsten Mitchell shows us how those kids and their parents are being welcomed with open arms.
A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to negligent fire for starting a fire inside a barbershop in Shoreview, allegedly to force the owner to move the shop to Columbia Heights.
The union representing teachers in Columbia Heights says educators have been working without a contract for more than 200 days.
Kirsten Mitchell shows us how Heights Pizza Man is helping people get to and from their celebrations safely.
Since taking over Heights Pizza Man four years ago, owner Chris Kolstad been offering sober rides to people on major holidays.
A Columbia Heights man is facing arson charges, accused of starting a barber shop fire to further his business interests.
Charges accuse a man of intentionally setting fire to a barbershop in Shoreview, allegedly to force the owner to move the shop to Columbia Heights.
A man and two of his pets are dead after a house fire in Columbia Heights early Thursday morning.
A local barber is leaning on the community since being forced to vacate his location in Columbia Heights.
Five departments responded to help fight the flames.
Thousands of Minnesotans are also helping out by adopting drains in their neighborhoods which they volunteer to clean.
A woman took a short joyride on a stolen motorcycle Thursday in the Twin Cities before taking an embarrassing tumble -- in front of an arresting officer.
A woman took a short joyride on a stolen motorcycle Thursday in the Twin Cities before taking an embarrassing tumble -- in front of an arresting officer.
The State Patrol says a car going south on Highway 65 around 10:30 p.m., left the road at 39th Avenue Northeast and hit two pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Two people are hurt and a boy is in police custody following an afternoon shooting in Columbia Heights.
Two people are injured following a shooting Saturday afternoon in Columbia Heights.
Two Minneapolis men pleaded guilty Monday to a February carjacking in which they drove the victim around at gunpoint for several hours while trying to take money from his bank account.
Police said the investigation is ongoing.
