People living at the homeless camp in Minneapolis got a surprise Saturday when a group of local college students served a hot meal and handed out donated items. The encampment is near Hiawatha and Franklin Avenues and has grown over the last several months. Earlier...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — The onset of wintry weather is impacting the safety and well-being of dozens of people living in a St. Paul homeless encampment. That’s why city officials have announced the site must be cleared by 10 a.m. Thursday. That announcement has many...
At a tent city for homeless people in Minneapolis, the path is strewn with used syringes. Some are shooting up in the open. Dozens have been found unconscious. At least two have died. Most of the more than 200 people here are Native Americans, who have spontaneously...
The Minneapolis City Council on Wednesday signed off on a plan that would relocate a growing homeless encampment along Hiawatha Avenue to property nearby owned by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. Tribal leaders on Friday offered the land just south of the Franklin...
Instead of driving everyone off, a coalition of agencies has flocked in to help, reflecting the unusual approach city officials and American Indian leaders are taking at the tent city near Hiawatha and Cedar. One blanket and one bag of clothes. That’s all that Denise...
Mayor Jacob Frey pledged to eliminate the encampment, which as doubled in size in recent weeks, by the end of September. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and American Indian leaders Thursday pledged to find stable housing for approximately 120 people living in a large and...
