The sweeping battlefields on which they displayed their valor as American soldiers fell quiet almost 70 years ago.

With music and color, energy and delight, Madison Elementary School, Blaine, celebrated its many cultures staging its fourth annual multicultural night Feb. 16.

Legislation cracking the seniority-driven retention of teachers passed the Minnesota House Feb. 16 on a 68 to 61 vote.

City leaders aren’t warm to the idea of the Coon Creek Watershed District or any other agency leasing its vacant third floor office space at Blaine City Hall.

With many of Ramsey’s roads approaching their 40th anniversary, the city is trying to figure out how to pay to reconstruct the deteriorating streets.

It was an evening of wine and epicurean delights in the Riverview Room of Anoka-Ramsey Community College Saturday evening.

Incumbents have found themselves paired in three Anoka County legislative districts under the Minnesota Legislature redistricting plan released by a courts panel Tuesday.

A couple of years ago, Allison Vatne, 16, made what she called minor, but significant lifestyle changes in order to be healthier.

To save taxpayers’ money in the long term, the city of East Bethel is considering the short-term expense of refinancing debt.

For six years, the Culver’s Jammers have packed Culver’s in Coon Rapids, filling the business with lively music for a few hours each Saturday.

Coon Rapids has become the first city in Minnesota to require prepayment of gasoline at stations in the city.

A Ramsey house fire has left a family homeless.

A late afternoon fire charred 40 to 50 acres of wetlands in Ramsey today (Monday, Feb. 20).

Don Soderquist had many stories to tell. So many that for his 72nd birthday, his children contracted the services of a writer to sit down with Soderquist and capture these stories in a book.

Although it was Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day was on the mind of the volunteers packing boxes for service members in the Middle East.

Since opening in 2005, Midwest Car Care has been in an Anoka County community. It opened in Fridley, moved to Ramsey and recently relocated to Ham Lake.

Jane Stevenson, assistant principal at Spring Lake Park High School, is now the school’s principal.

Anoka is getting ready to take the first steps on construction of River Front Park, a new community green space and gathering spot planned north of city hall.

When school bells ring in the new school year there will be more counting, more reading, more playing and more learning for more of District 11’s five- and six-year old students.

A regional consortium spearheaded by the Coon Rapids City Council for street maintenance materials and services will continue this year.

Work to renew more than a mile of streets in the southeast corner of Anoka is moving ahead.

A $1 million sanitary sewer relining program is planned by the city of Coon Rapids this year.