The Cities Blog

An annual event designed to help homeless and at-risk military veterans happens this week at Fort Snelling.
Who’s the energy efficiency champion?
Xcel Energy won the prize, "Champion of Energy Efficiency in Industry" from ACEEE.
Power to the…air conditioner?
On July 20, Xcel Energy supplied 9.537 megawatts of power during peak demand, a record.
Customers boarded Metro Transit buses and trains 39.6 million times in the first six months of 2011, the group reported on Wednesday. That's a 3.2 percent increase over the same period last year.
6th Annual FLOW Northside Arts Crawl
The free event on Saturday will recognize the thousands of volunteers who've helped clean up north Minneapolis after the tornado.