Wire thieves are darkening St. Paul’s streetlights and costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s been a continuing problem. Especially so last year — the cost to St. Paul was ...

"If you see anybody working on the streetlights, doesn't matter what time of the day, and there isn't a City of St. Paul vehicle right nearby, please do give the police a call,"; Lisa Hiebert said.

St. Paul has set aside $20,000 to study various lighting options around the city, and St. Martin said an LED test is planned for use in the globe-styled street lights downtown.

The darkening of city and park streetlights and traffic signals due to theft has been an ongoing problem, with St. Paul spending about $3 million last year in repairs and staff time. The costs ...

The DPW says the insulation on wire used in streetlights is marked ‘City of St. Paul. ... “If there’s not a City of St. Paul vehicle right there, call 911, call the police,” Hiebert says.

Nearly 100 people filled St. Paul Police Western District headquarters Tuesday night seeking answers to the problem leaving many places in the city in the dark.

Dark streetlights in St. Paul are yet another reminder of how public life is under attack To watch the city’s lights go dark is like death by a thousand cuts, the deformation of wires sticking ...

Copper wire theft has left the city of Saint Paul with more than 2,000 streetlights currently out, leaving pedestrians and drivers alike unsafe,” Hollins said in a statement.

Six St. Paul residents are charged with stealing copper wire from streetlights. They are accused of selling them to a Blaine scrapyard. To stream KARE 11 on your phone, you need the KARE 11 app.

The backstory. Copper thefts have long been an issue for the Twin Cities. In 2023, the City of St. Paul told FOX 9 rampant thefts were slowing its efforts to fix streetlights, despite mitigation ...