A federal judge has paused the review of the consent decree between the Minneapolis City Council and the U.S. Department of Justice, which ordered expansive reforms to the city's police department.

The Minneapolis City Council voted Tuesday in favor of an audit of the Minneapolis Police Department following the suspicious death of an Indigenous woman last February. Police Chief Brian O’Hara says they’re committed to pursuing justice for victim.

A federal judge has approved a request made by the U.S. Department of Justice to pause proceedings in the consent decree agreement with the City of Minneapolis that would implement sweeping reforms within the police department.

New cameras could be installed at traffic lights as soon as August in Minneapolis, which would be used to issue citations to speeding drivers and red light-runners. The proposed installation of the cameras are the result of a pilot program approved by state lawmakers in 2024, which would run from Aug. 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029.

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily pause proceedings on a consent decree between Minneapolis and the federal government after attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice asked to put the case on hold.

Minneapolis city leaders have publicly supported the consent decree after working with the DOJ to reach an agreement since 2023 — when a federal investigation slammed the police department for patterns of racist policing and unjustifiable use of excessive force.

Minneapolis Police announced that Mary Andrews, a missing 69-year-old with Alzheimer's, has been safely found.

Police say they've arrested two men and two teenage boys suspected in an early-morning crime spree across Minneapolis last week that included two shootings, two burglaries and a carjacking at gunpoint.

(Minneapolis Police Department) Minneapolis police say they’ve arrested four people in connection to a rash of violent crimes committed in a two-hour burst early one morning last week that ...

(Minneapolis Police Department) “Oh, somebody is looking over there,” one man said, according to surveillance footage released by police, as he and an accomplice each raised a handgun.