It will also gut funding for a federal grant program that the Metropolitan Council is counting on for a planned extension of the Blue Line light rail project and a planned bus rapid transit line.

Since Metro Transit opened the Gold Line in March, Fred LaPlant has been taking the new rapid bus line to his job as a lab manager at Solventum on the 3M campus in Maplewood a couple of times a week.

St. Paul is preparing for the massive Minnesota Yacht Club Festival this weekend which welcomes over 100,000 attendees to Harriet Island Regional Park. Here’s what you need to know if you’re heading t ...