Before Scott Cutcher passed the bar and took up the noble cause of defending your indigent neighbors charged with crimes, he ...

Dan Gorman, a corrections officer who said he ... Jeff Vars, correctional officer at Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights, said Friday that the closure of Stillwater is “sending ...

Unions representing correction officers and staff at Stillwater have called for a halt to the plan, calling the budget agreement that includes the closure “shortsighted, downright dangerous, ...

Sources also told KSTP the Minnesota Department of Corrections is ready to pick up Chauvin at a federal penitentiary, and bring him back to Oak Park Heights Prison in Minnesota to serve the ...

Minnesota will shut down the state’s aging Stillwater prison by mid-2029, a move that will lead to layoffs among 565 staff members and require the state to relocate nearly 1,200 inmates.

George Floyd, a Black man, died by the hands of a white police officer on May 25, 2020, which spurred Black Lives Matter ...

The Minnesota Department of Health, in an investigative report following the death of a resident at Oak Park Senior Living, ...

The 36 trees planted last week at Boutwells Landing senior living community in Oak Park Heights have a big job: To help revitalize the state’s elm population. The American elm trees, each about 2 ...

A state court jury convicted a Minneapolis-area man Friday of third-degree murder and vehicular homicide in the deaths of five young women in a crash that authorities said was caused by him speeding, ...

In recent years, Oak Park has been establishing its culinary identity with new eateries in unassuming places. Entrepreneurs are breathing life into old auto shops and veterinary hospitals ...

Two lawmakers are asking officials to consider reopening the Prairie Correctional Facility “as a permanent part of our ...