More than 40 million Americans are expected to drive, fly or ride trains to their Thanksgiving destinations this year -- that's according to AAA. The travel tracker says it's the highest number since the start of the recession.

International air traffic to and from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport climbed from nearly 1.7 million passengers to roughly 1.8 million between 2003 and 2011, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution.

Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Thomas Sorel is leaving the 5,000-worker agency that he has guided since April 2008, and on Dec. 1 will become the new leader of AAA Minneapolis, a 200,000-member auto club.

State transportation officials say there was only one traffic death on during the long holiday weekend. The state's deadliest Thanksgiving was in 1994, when 18 people died.

Good news for the housing market: The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index rose 2.2 percent in May, beating economists' forecasts, as all 20 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas posted gains from April. And 12 of the 20 cities had higher prices than they did a year ago, suggesting that the improvement is durable, the report said. In Minneapolis, housing prices were up 3.1 percent from April, and up 4.7 percent from last year.