With the 2024 expiration of pandemic relief dollars, the county has taken on a $20 million deficit to sustain robust programing aimed at stopping homelessness before it happens. Homelessness is ...

Hennepin County has approved nearly $15 million in funding for projects that will preserve or create more than 1,100 affordable housing units. The county’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority ...

After six months of bargaining, the AFSCME Council 5 union reached a tentative agreement with Hennepin County for around 4,000 employees on Friday, promising more benefits and wage increases over ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Citing a failure to provide adequate well-being checks and staffing woes, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) placed the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center's license ...

Hennepin County employees are planning to rally, claiming the county is refusing to give sufficient pay raises to workers such as those in child protective services despite attempting to give ...

ST.PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, Oct. 29 that Hennepin County must change its absentee ballot board to prioritize placement of GOP-submitted nominees. The MN Voters ...

Hennepin County officials have fired a courier who left several boxes of ballots unsecured outside of Edina City Hall on Friday. The discovery led to an immediate response from the county and city ...

Navy veteran Alyssa Koeppen felt some added satisfaction on Tuesday as she listened to Hennepin County officials announce the county had “effectively ended” homelessness among veterans.

Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel University. MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County says it has effectively ended veteran homelessness. State leaders, lawmakers and county social workers ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When small businesses struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hennepin County contracted with a number of companies to help reach out to the community and assist with things like ...

Nearly four months after the Hennepin County Board implemented more financial oversight of the organization that runs HCMC, nurses say working conditions have not changed and the hospital needs ...

This screenshot from Hennepin County's dashboard shows monthly patterns of homelessness inflow and outflow, informed by the county's by-name count. Overall, homelessness increased three-tenths of ...