MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --A popular park in the heart of St. Paul is in disarray right now, but there's a good reason for that. Rice Park is getting a major facelift this summer. From carnivals to ...

On Tuesday, St. Paul's oldest public space became its newest public park. Rice Park, set aside as a public square in 1849, was rededicated as a newer, more open and more accessible version of ...

Each block weighs about 500 pounds. "This is about Minnesota, St. Paul proud," ice palace chairperson Dan Stoltz said. "This is just a phenomenal day that we've been talking about for so long." ...

Rice Park has quietly reopened to the public, a year after the iconic downtown St. Paul park and public plaza closed for a major renovation. On Friday afternoon, work crews began removing the ...

The city of St. Paul has announced the completion of a new LED light installation in Rice Park. The installation, known as LightWave, adds the “final glow” to the park’s redesign ...

For the fourth year, Summer Nights in Rice will offer six free concerts in downtown St. Paul’s Rice Park. The concerts take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Parking is available on-street and in the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn ... Ice sculptors took pictures drawn by Children's Minnesota patients and carved them into ice. The idea for the sculptures at Rice Park came from Tom Klug, a sculptor who ...

The Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition began Friday at 8 a.m. and ended at noon Sunday. The ice and snow creations are viewable for free at Rice Park, 109 W 4th St, St. Paul, and the ...

St. Paul had its first Pride festival Saturday at Rice Park. Organizers said they concentrated ... exclusive programs like Verify and HeartThreads; and Minnesota sports talk from our partners ...

The payoff, say friends of St. Paul's oldest public space ... executive director of Minnesota Landmarks and chairwoman of the Rice Park Association. "What we would like to see is more people ...

It opened five years before Minnesota became a state ... Henry Rice, a U.S. Senator who donated Rice Park to Saint Paul. John Sanborn, a general in the Civil War who fought in several battles ...