It currently operates in Bloomington, St. Louis Park and Tonka Bay. Nova Restaurant Group, Facebook Sometimes you need an overflow lobby. And sometimes you just need to open an extra restaurant.  Hazelwood, which already has locations in Bloomington, St. Louis Park and Tonka Bay, is planning to do just that in the city of Woodbury.  Nova Restaurant Group, the firm behind Hazelwood as well as four other popular dining spots in the Twin Cities and Rochester, confirmed the news on its Facebook page Friday, saying the new location is "coming this summer." However, as the Minneapoli ..read more

The e-commerce giant is adding a trucking and warehousing building. Woodbury is getting an Amazon facility.  It's been rumored the eastern Twin Cities suburb would be home to Amazon's latest facility after the City Council in August approved a proposal from Ryan Companies to build a 517,000-square-foot distribution building at the southwest corner of Hudson Road and Manning Ave in northeast Woodbury. The Pioneer Press confirmed this week the project, referred to in city documents as Project Belle, is an Amazon distribution center that will see 140 trucks entering and leaving the ..read more

One of the suspects evaded police for nearly four months. Demaris Hobbs-Ekdahl GoFundMe The fourth and final suspect sought in connection to a drive-by shootout that killed a 14-year-old boy in Woodbury on June 5 has been arrested.  Enrique Lucio Davila, 24, was arrested on the 500 block of Brainerd Avenue in St. Paul on an outstanding felony arrest warrant, the Woodbury Police Department said Thursday.  "Woodbury police detectives worked tirelessly to track Davila down, and we hope that Davila's arrest brings some small comfort to those affected by the tragic death of 14-year-old De ..read more

And 2 other Minnesota cities made the top 50 list. Money Magazine says the best place to live in the U.S. — from big cities to small towns, and everything in between — is Chanhassen, Minnesota. The magazine revealed its 35th annual "50 Best Places to Live" list Tuesday, looking at metrics across nine different categories to create its definitive ranking for 2021-22. And the southwest Twin Cities suburb came in at No. 1. Money Magazine says the pandemic "upended conventional notions" about work and home life, and acknowledges the " choppy economic recovery and an ongoing national discourse arou ..read more

One of the teens was killed in the crash. The 17-year-old driver of a vehicle that crashed so violently in Woodbury that it split in half, killing one passenger and seriously injuring three others, has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide and three counts of criminal vehicular operation.  Kyle S. Hollister, of Woodbury, was charged Sept. 10 via juvenile petition in Washington County District Court. He was behind the wheel of a car that crashed on Settlers Ridge Parkway in Woodbury on March 13.  Four teenage passengers were in the vehicle with Hollister, on their way to a McD ..read more

Police say officers pursued the fleeing driver from Eden Prairie to Minnetonka. Stock image Credit: Tony Webster via Flickr (photo cropped) A second person has died following a police pursuit of a suspected street racer that ended in a crash Sunday morning in Minnetonka.  Marina Emms, 19, of Woodbury, died later Sunday after being transported to a local hospital, according to family members. She was a passenger in the vehicle that the Eden Prairie Police Department says was involved in a street race around 1:40 a.m. near Flying Cloud Drive and Crosstown Circle.  According to police ..read more

All of Minnesota's top stories in one place. Greenwood wildfire doubles in size to 2,000 acres; 75 homes evacuated The Greenwood Fire in northeastern Minnesota has grown to more than 2,000 acres and has forced highways to close and the evacuation of about 75 homes and cabins. Monday afternoon, the fire was estimated at 1,000 acres and by Monday night, it was estimated at being 2,000 acres in size, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday evening. Credit: USDA Forest Service "Fire behavior was observed to be extreme with torching and long-range spotting," the U.S. Forest Service said. Long-range sp ..read more

Police say more are still out there. Woodbury Public Safety Police in Woodbury say they arrested three teenage children at the weekend in connection with a recent vehicle theft spree in the city. Woodbury Police, Fire and EMS announced on Facebook the arrests were made Saturday after police were called to attempted thefts of vehicles from garages in the 9100 block of Heritage Way and the 4800 block of Ashton Curve. The thieves fled when confronted in a white Audi sedan, a stolen vehicle that police say has been linked to several other incidents in the Twin Cities. The vehicle was found a shor ..read more

Police say the thefts are crimes of opportunity because keys are left inside the vehicles. Photo by Alvis Taurēns on Unsplash There's been a rash of vehicle thefts in Woodbury, which has police reminding residents to take the keys out of their cars.  According to the Woodbury Public Safety Department, 21 vehicles were stolen over a 10-day period from July 30 through Aug. 9.  On Aug. 4, the department tweeted at 9:46 p.m. that there had been 14 vehicles stolen in the last "several" days, including five in the past two hours.  Of the 21 stolen vehicles, 14 were taken from drivewa ..read more

He was arrested and charged with six felonies this week. A 34-year-old Woodbury man faces eight counts of possessing child pornography after authorities say they found hundreds of child porn images on his electronic devices. Agents with the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant at the home of William Glenn Pinckney just before 7 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). He was arrested about 9 a.m. Thursday and booked into Washington County jail., according to online records. The task for ..read more