Here’s your day-by-day guide to the 2026 St. Paul Winter Carnival
St. Paul had barely been a city for three decades when its residents decided to start celebrating the coldest days with a festival. Since that...
5,600 Green Card applicants in Minnesota targeted through Operation PARRIS
On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away...
Meet the candidates for Aurora, Queen of the Snows of the 2026 St. Paul Winter Carnival
The perpetual enthusiasm of the candidates for Aurora, Queen of the Snows of the St. Paul Winter Carnival recently inspired a subplot in a movie....
A look back at 140 years of the St. Paul Winter Carnival in photos
St. Paulites were predictably outraged in 1885 when a New York newspaper correspondent characterized Minnesota as “another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in winter.” Members...
For Dungarvin’s Tim Madden, whose grandfather wrote the Winter Carnival legend, sponsoring the festival is full-circle
In 1937, columnist Frank Madden infused new life into a civic festival by penning a fantastical legend of a snow king and ice king battling...
$7M youth sports complex coming to Apple Valley
Apple Valley is shelling out millions to level up its youth sports facilities. Once completed, the Hayes Youth Athletic Complex will boast four youth baseball...