MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Lake Calhoun could be called something different if a Minneapolis man gets his wish. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board directed someone to start researching the idea ...

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted unanimously Wednesday evening to approve changing the name of Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska. The off-and-on conversation gained steam in 2015 after a ...

“Names matter,” said Sara Schonwald, a lifelong Minneapolis resident, before talking about why she supports Tuesday’s Hennepin County Board vote to return Lake Calhoun to its original Dakota ...

As a teenager growing up in the wild suburbs of St. Paul, it was a summer rite of passage when one got their driver’s license (at the age of 15!) to take a car full of buddies, and hopefully ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board denied a proposal Wednesday to drape Lake Calhoun signs with black cloth on the anniversary of the Civil War ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ended the yearslong legal dispute over what to call the biggest lake in Minneapolis with these words: "Under Minnesota law, the body of water that was Lake Calhoun is ...

Lake Calhoun, one of Minneapolis' pre-eminent lakes, was named after him. A slave owner himself, Calhoun was one of Congress' most ardent defenders of slavery before the Civil War. With a recent ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court will decide whether the state Department of Natural Resources has the authority to change the name of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to its original Dakota name ...

But then we have the lake in Minneapolis named after a man with racist ideas … Lake Calhoun is that large, round, iconic body of water in Minneapolis around which people jog, bike, and play ...

Graves Hospitality opened the 125-room Moxy Minneapolis Uptown at 1121 W. Lake St. in January. That hotel is in the neighboring Uptown neighborhood, and is about a mile west of Elevage’s project ...