Reporter | Minneapolis

Susan Du covers the city of Minneapolis for the Star Tribune.


Teamsters, striking Minneapolis park workers to mark 90th anniversary of strike that led to the creation of the National Labor Relations Act

Event Saturday in Minnehaha Park will commemorate the 1934 Minneapolis truckers strike, a bloody, six-month clash that made the city a union town.


Striking workers shut down Minneapolis Park Board meeting with three-hour protest

A majority of commissioners chose not to discuss a resolution to settle contract negotiations between the Park Board and Laborers Local 363.


Minneapolis officials release options for redesign of George Floyd Square area

The city unveiled three street concepts and five ideas for the former gas station.


Judge dismisses ACLU-Minnesota's homeless encampment lawsuit

The four-year lawsuit represented formerly homeless people who had their belongings seized in 2020.


Uptown businesses organize against proposed medical respite homeless shelter

Lakeshore Care wants to bring a 24-bed center to the struggling Minneapolis business district for homeless people to stay temporarily as they recuperate after hospitalization.


Minneapolis park labor talks break down again over disagreement over wage facts

The Minneapolis park workers strike has persisted 15 days, leading to cancelled concerts and delayed storm cleanup.


Activists miss funding deadline for Roof Depot purchase in Mpls.

The city will start the process of terminating the purchase agreement on Tuesday, triggering a final 60-day period for the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute to come up with $5.7 million.


Minneapolis is on the leading edge of biochar, a carbon sequestering material full of promise and still under research

By this fall, Minneapolis aims to be one of the first American cities to produce a carbon-removing charcoal for construction, agriculture and potentially carbon banking.


Tensions rise between unions, restaurant owners over proposed labor standards board

As the City Council considers a proposed Labor Standards Board, there is a widening gap between what supporters and opponents think it will entail.


Dakota community leads reclamation of land near St. Anthony Falls for traditional use

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi, formerly Friends of the Falls, selected an Indigenous-led design team for a multiyear ecological restoration of 5 acres of federal land in downtown Minneapolis.