Business & Tech

Southwest Journal Gets Back Online

Temporary site up and running.

After a rogue coder going by the nom d'internet "HellFire" defaced the front page of the Downtown Journal earlier this week, Southwest Minneapolis residents have been at a loss when looking for stories from its sister publication, the Southwest Journal.

Both websites have been temporarilly taken offline while Minnesota Premier Publications staff repair whatever internal damage the attack caused, and disarm any thing the hacker left behind.

Well, wait no more! Friday afternoon, Sarah McKenzie, editor of both publications, told Patch over Twitter that for the time being, you can still find all her reporters' fine work at a temporary Wordpress site

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