But did you know that for decades, Ford miners extracted not precious metals or coal, but common sand for making windshields right under the automaker’s St. Paul assembly plant? The Ford plant ...

The deadline for the city council to take action is March 17 or the zoning variances are automatically approved.

A developer’s efforts to add a series of single-story buildings along the outer edges of the Highland Bridge development have been rebuffed by a tie vote of the St. Paul City Council.