Twenty-year practice was deemed a tax on nonprofits. The city of Saint Paul’s controversial street maintenance assessment program has ended 20 years after it began. City officials have opted not to appeal a May ruling by a Ramsey County District…
Saint Paul officials want answers from the city’s consortium of five residential trash haulers, after receiving almost 3,000 complaints about missed garbage and yard waste pickups in the first 10 days of June. The missed pickups are a big increase…
Public comments are being sought on a plan to add new pavement, sidewalks, streetlights and underground utilities on Grand Avenue between Snelling and Fairview avenues. The estimated $7 million project is scheduled to start in 2024. The stretch of Grand…
The theft of copper wire from light poles on Saint Paul’s streets and in parks cost the city more than $300,000 in 2021 and is likely to top that total in 2022. City Council members heard an update on April…
A quarter-mile of Prior Avenue just north of I-94 will be reconstructed in 2022. The section between Gilbert and University avenues will be largely closed to traffic from June to November as the Saint Paul Department of Public Works gives…
The Saint Paul City Council approved a $457,000 allocation on November 3 from the Great River Passage Conservancy to design a new Mississippi River education center at Watergate Marina and Crosby Farm Regional Park. The project has been on the…
A master plan for Summit Avenue to improve the recreational experience on the tree-lined boulevard and the safety of all those who use it will be drawn up in the coming months by Saint Paul’s departments of Parks and Recreation…
Work to correct last year’s portion of the Griggs-Scheffer street reconstruction project in Highland Park is now in full swing. Local residents met twice in August with representatives of the Saint Paul Department of Public Works and Ward 3 City…
Detours are popping up north and south of Ford site project. Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians have been frustrated this spring and summer with the profusion of construction-related detours in the Highland Park neighborhood. In addition to an unusually large number…
More than $5.1 million from the federal American Rescue Plan will be spent on a variety of pressing needs in Saint Paul, including increased public safety measures, criminal court prosecutions, and street and crosswalk restriping. The Saint Paul City Council…
A group of local homeowners has sued the city of Saint Paul in an attempt to block its plan to install sidewalks in the Edgcumbe Road right-of-way between Highland Parkway and Hamline Avenue. The half-mile stretch of roadway has never…
A proposed Rondo Neighborhood Streets Improvement Study won support on July 7 from the Saint Paul City Council. The council is now seeking a $2 million federal RAISE (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) grant for the three-year study.…
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