On the afternoon of January 8, a day after Renee Nicole Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in South Minneapolis, ICE agents detained Mar Navarro and Anna Brauch following an altercation near the intersection of Central Avenue and Lowry Avenue NE. Per a GoFundMe, Brauch “has been released and is at the hospital with broken bones in her hand”; according to eyewitnesses, Navarro has been released as well.
Editorial: Safety for whom?
On January 5, 2026, Jacob Frey was inaugurated to his third term in Minneapolis. The administration has said they will focus on “three core priorities”: economic opportunity, housing and safety. These are admirable, if tangled and complex, ideas but it’s worth focusing on just one here: safety.
Break-in at Broken Clock
It was the early morning hours of Christmas Day — around 2:45 a.m. — when Jeremy Mathison says his team received a notification that the alarms went off at Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative, 1712 Marshall St. NE.
Parents and teachers talk district budget
On Dec. 16, Northeast residents had a chance to not only hear about the Minneapolis School District’s financial problems, but also to contribute their own ideas to the district’s future.
An “Art Walk” in Colorado
As part of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District’s research for creating an “Art Walk” on Central Avenue, the Art Walk Committee is visiting other art walk communities. Interviewing the people who make their art walks helps inform the Committee’s process for developing the Arts District Central Avenue Art Walk.
Speaking in a love language of form, line and kinship
Dyani White Hawk has spent the past two decades creating art that reckons with lineage, authorship and care.
Mt. Carmel Lutheran church celebrates centennial
December 7 marked 100 years and a day since several Lutheran families held their first religious service in a borrowed home on Ulysses Street NE.
Horse-drawn carriages and electric bikes
The regular stomping of hooves up and down the city of Minneapolis belongs to the horses of The Hitching Company, which offers riders carriage tours along Main Street, around Nicollet Island, in the North Loop, and throughout the metropolitan area.
Twin Cities I-Cycle Derby holds its 76th race
A sputtering of engines and the smell of gasoline filled the cold air around the south end of the Thorp Building, 1620 Central Ave. NE, on January 1. Nine motorcycle and moped riders were queued on their vehicles, ready to start their race. The 76th annual Twin Cities I-Cycle Derby was on.
In Business 1/14/26
In Business column for the 1/14 Northeaster