Motorist flees after crash with light rail train in Minneapolis, police say
Metro Transit police are looking for a motorist who ran a red light Saturday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, striking a light rail train and then fleeing the area.
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Metro Transit police are looking for a motorist who ran a red light Saturday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, striking a light rail train and then fleeing the area.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a METRO Green Line train Friday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to Metro Transit police.
A group of Minnesota homeowners say part of a planned bus route is too close for comfort. The homeowners, all in their 70s and 80s, gathered at a Metro Transit meeting on Monday afternoon. The organization’s proposed Bronze Line is planned to pass near a co-op in St. Paul where they live.
A new project gets underway Monday to update Metro Transit's light rail lines in the Twin Cities — with buses running on some of the LRT lines.
A 2018 University of Minnesota study estimated Twin Cities Pride attendees spent more than $7 million while attending the festival. Organizers say crowds have only gotten larger and more vendors have signed on.
The entirety of the Metro Transit Blue Line and parts of the Green Line will shut down for a few weeks this summer and be replaced by buses as crews work to swap worn track and outdated equipment.
Starting Monday, the entire Blue Line between the Mall of America and Target Field will be closed all summer for repairs. The Green Line will close too for all of July and parts of August. Adam Duxter shares the back-up plan to keep travel from going off the rails.
Minnesota lawmakers are now calling for Metro Transit to scrap its plans to expand the light rail, more than half a decade into the project.
Minnesota lawmakers are now calling for Metro Transit to scrap its plans to expand the light rail, more than half a decade into the project.
State lawmakers are now calling for Metro Transit to scrap its plans to expand the light rail, more than a half-decade into the project.
Metro Transit claims its safety and security plan is working.
Minneapolis says its summer safety plans includes putting more officers on patrol, walking or biking their beats to be more visible. And after years of crime concerns on the light rail and city buses, Metro Transit has beefed up its law enforcement presence too. As Frankie McLister and Photojournalist Joe Van Ryn report, new numbers appear to show that's helping transit get back on track.
Bloomington, Minnesota, police are investigating after two motorcyclists were killed in a crash Friday night.
Kenneth Johnson was working with two students on March 13 when he came across a crash near 25th Street and Portland Avenue.
Your car isn't the only vehicle that needs gas. It's a huge budget item for Minnesota fire departments, police and mass transit.
A bus route rescue you'll see only on WCCO. A driver stops in the street, grabs a fire extinguisher and heads towards a burning car. Photojournalist Nick Lunemann and Jeff Wagner show us how that emergency turned into a teachable moment.
The No Kings rally in St. Paul on Saturday could be one of the largest demonstrations in Minnesota history. As Conor Wight shows, it’s all-hands-on-deck as officials prepare for up to 150,000 people.
Organizers expect more than 100,000 people to flood St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday for the No Kings rally — an all-hands-on deck situation for law enforcement and public transit officials.
According to Metro Transit, lower-level assaults have risen from 78 in 2024 to 140 in 2025.
Metro Transit says assaults against workers have nearly doubled on buses and light rail trains in about a year. Ashley Grams shows us the plan to lower the number of attacks.
Union members and leaders say a bus driver saw a Minnesotan grabbed by ICE agents last week.
In 2018, annual ridership peaked at more than 780,000 passengers. There was a dramatic drop during the pandemic, with an all-time low of just over 50,000 riders in 2021.
Sixteen years of commuting came to a close on Sunday. The Northstar line made its final ride after the Vikings game to get fans home safely to the north suburbs. WCCO's Marielle Mohs caught up with the farewell riders.
A teenage boy is accused of injuring three people in a shooting on a bus in north Minneapolis earlier this month.
Minneapolis police are investigating after they say a man suffered "potentially life-threatening injuries" in a stabbing on Thursday morning.
