Thank you for eight great years!

While the stories of Rochester and Mayo Clinic will forever be intertwined, author Virginia Wright-Peterson wants you to know that there is more to the city’s history.

The indoor skatepark would be the first of its kind in Rochester — with the goal of providing skateboarders a fun, safe space to continue staying active, particularly during the colder weather months.

A Rochester nonprofit serving people with disabilities throughout southeast Minnesota is close to breaking ground on the region’s first fully-accessible indoor recreation center.

Michael York, the enduring actor whose film credits include Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, and Logan’s Run, is settling into his next act two-thousand miles away from Hollywood.

Rochester’s lakes all share one trait: their unnaturalness.

Before commercial planes and vast highway systems, it was rail that helped put Mayo Clinic on the map.

After two years of construction, the east end of Peace Plaza has a new look — with Destination Medical Center leaders betting the project will be a catalyst for a downtown resurgence.

When Axiom Space launches its historic mission to the International Space Station, count on Mayo Clinic researchers to be paying close attention.

The buses represent two milestones for Rochester Public Transit: the first electric vehicles in the fleet, and the first 60-foot articulated models.

It took decades of women organizing, educating, and grinding to finally circumvent the old ways of Rochester’s male-dominated power structures.

When Hawa Camara decided to start Together Against Breast Cancer, a nonprofit organization providing support to people with breast cancer, she drew inspiration from her own experience.

The Rochester Downtown Alliance, which organizes the weekly summer street festival, announced Wednesday it would be adding two extra dates to the calendar — moving the series opener up to June 16.

During the late 1980s to early ‘90s, in an era known as “glasnost,” the Soviet Union had begun to move in the direction of becoming a more open society, one that allowed democratic elections, a free press, and private investment. The nation also had its sights on adopting some of the best models of American ingenuity — and not just in fast-food.

More than six months after the city agreed to sell off the former Dooley’s space in downtown Rochester, the building remains dark — though its new owners say plans for the site are starting to come together.

Local restaurateur Sammi Loo plans to open Mezza 9 Café and Bakery this February at 20 Third Street SW. The location was most recently occupied by Bar Buffalo.

In a news release Thursday, the city said it still needs more than 200 judges to serve voters during the March 3 presidential primary.