Senior Digital Editor

Colleen Kelly guides the Star Tribune's digital content and strategic planning. She focuses on audience engagement efforts such as Curious Minnesota, enterprise project planning and social media.

Kelly has worked as an editor and designer at the Miami Herald, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and El Mundo (Lima, Peru). Her journalism degree is from the University of Missouri-Columbia.


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As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, we've answered reader question about what they most want to know about the outbreak.


See Nicollet Island through the years

The sliver of land in the Mississippi River is home to a secluded enclave of historic homes sitting atop public parkland. But that's just one of the oddities of this place, an often-overlooked landmark of early Minneapolis.


How to make an appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Minnesota

Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are being administered through health systems, state clinics, health departments and pharmacies. Here's what you need to know.


Photos: Trump visits Texas in waning days of term

Trump visits Texas on Tuesday to trumpet his campaign against illegal immigration in an attempt to burnish his legacy with eight days remaining in his term


Battleground states at center of ballot counting, protests

Protests and legal skirmishes continue Friday as votes are still being counted in states across the U.S.


These WPA projects changed the face of Minnesota

In Minnesota, the WPA built or improved 28,000 miles of road, 578 miles of sidewalk and 1,443 bridges, according to Rolf Anderson, an architectural historian who researched the state's New Deal relics.


Tornadoes of 1965 left destruction, death in wake

Six tornadoes tore through the Twin Cities metro with 13 fatalities and more than 700 injured on May 6, 1965.


More than 275 Minnesota seniors named National Merit semifinalists

See which seniors from Minnesota have been named National Merit Semifinalists for 2021. The students scored among the top 1 percent of students nationally on the PSAT.


I-35W bathed in colorful lights to commemorate holidays, causes

The Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis has thousands of L.E.D. lights that can illuminate the structure from below to commemorate holidays and causes.


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