The cost of Minnesota's most expensive public works project has more than doubled to $2.7 billion in a decade, according to a legislative audit of the Southwest light rail project released Friday.

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Republican lawmakers in Minnesota said Monday they would try to shift federal funding away from a planned light-rail route between Minneapolis and its southwestern suburbs and spend it instead on general road and bridge repair.

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Public-private partnerships are vital as cities scramble to accommodate a fast-rising urban population and shifting infrastructure needs, but parties on both sides need to be more innovative when it comes to working together.

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Other Midwest cities are running circles — of commuter track — around Milwaukee.

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A commission looking to expand transit options in the east metro is lining up in support of a plan that would create a bus rapid transit line between downtown St. Paul and Woodbury, Minn., largely along Hudson Road.

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With light-rail construction engulfing the University of Minnesota, campus is covered in hard hats and neon vests. But few of those are worn by female workers.

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The future of public transit in the Interstate 94 corridor between Minnesota and Wisconsin shed a couple of "ifs" when transportation officials and consultants declared a dedicated St. Croix River crossing a no-go.

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More construction crews soon could descend on Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley Industrial Center, a once-dilapidated landscape that has undergone a decade-long revival.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says the joint venture that built the Hiawatha light-rail line in Minneapolis has agreed to pay the government $4.6 million. The settlement resolves allegations that Minnesota Transit Constructors Inc. submitted false claims. Minnesota ...

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By Bill Clements Dolan Media Minneapolis — To Lake Elmo, Minn., Mayor Dean Johnston, the reason for doing long-term planning for a new transit corridor from Minneapolis to Eau Claire, Wis., is pretty simple. It’s to keep the taxpayers happy ...

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