News & Events

The Met Council is supporting a collective effort to steward land at the 27-acre Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary,

The Met Council is poised in February to adopt forecasts for local population, household, and job growth for the seven-county Twin Cities region.

Met Council staff hosted a summit to share ideas on how to implement new state planning requirements for climate mitigation and adaptation.
 

What will our region look like in 2050? Looking at past development can inform our future.

Efforts to provide a consistently safe, clean, and welcoming experience on Metro Transit service will expand through investment in public safety initiatives in 2025.
 

The Met Council has awarded $3 million in Livable Communities grants to cities to help create 46 new affordable homeownership opportunities in eight cities in the Twin Cities metro region.
 

The Metropolitan Council is planning to build a new water resource recovery facility to treat wastewater in the northwest metro area to replace the existing Rogers Plant.

The Metropolitan Council adopted a public comment draft of its 2025 budget in October and will accept public comments on the budget through Dec. 11.

The Met Council has awarded $5.5 million in Livable Communities grants to support mixed-use development near high-frequency transit routes.

The Met Council awarded $9.8 million in Livable Communities grants in November with a focus on supporting deeply affordable housing for larger families and for people experiencing homelessness.  
 

In November, the Metropolitan Council approved several changes aimed at simplifying and lowering transit fares starting on Jan. 1, 2025.

To enhance regional mobility, the METRO Gold Line, a bus rapid transit line opening in March 2025, will be extended to downtown Minneapolis in 2027.  

Metro Transit and local partners are expanding the use of bus lanes, signal technology, and other tactics to improve transit reliability across the region.