Minnesota motorists purchased over 470,000 "Blackout" license plates in 2025, per state data, nearly doubling sales from the ...

Traffic moves along Interstate 94 near the Minnesota Highway 15 intersection near St. Cloud. Nearly a quarter of a million blackout license plates were sold to Minnesotans last year, by far the most ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s new blackout license plates had a powerful first year of sales. More than a quarter-million vehicles in the state now have the plates featuring a simple design of white letters ...

As a librarian, Patrick Jones loves words and likes to play word games. So when he saw a specialized license plate that read “BBQ-007″while driving recently, he smiled and quickly gave it a meaning ...

A letter from the head of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is calling out Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for “swapping license plates” between unmarked vehicles ...