News & Updates

The 2021 budget includes a 0% increase to the property tax levy.

Minnesota winters are known to be cold, dark and long. However, there is a lot to love about the season as well. Find appreciation for where you live even after shoveling your way out of a snowbank. 

Ramsey County has launched the new Job Connect online job board to connect residents and employers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.  

Nearly half a million people in Minnesota lack regular access to food. In Ramsey County, 20% of children are considered food insecure, and seniors aged 60+ are the fastest-growing group of food shelf visitors.

Trends show the Minnesota climate is growing wetter and warmer. Daily low temperatures in southern Minnesota have increased 4.9 degrees since 1895.

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi joined leadership from the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, the Saint Paul Police Department, the Ramsey County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program supervisor and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA) to call upon legislators to create and fund centralized storage for sexual assault kits (SAK) at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Ramsey County Attorney John J. Choi held a press conference August 28 addressing the case resolution in State of Minnesota v. Asad Ibrahim.

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi held a press conference July 2 to announce the addition of a facility dog to assist crime victims and witnesses. Norie, a two-year old purebred Golden Retriever, will provide quiet companionship to adults and children who are victims and witnesses to crime. She is highly trained for the purpose of putting victims and witnesses at ease so they can better participate in the prosecution process and ease the natural tension that comes with highly traumatic experiences. 

On May 8, the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners received notice from Commissioner Blake Huffman that he is resigning from the board effective June 1, 2019.