Eden Prairie Local News (EPLN) was honored with eight awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) on June 16, including five first-place awards, for work published in 2025. On the same night, EPLN was named as a finalist in the Institute for Nonprofit News’ 2026 Nonprofit News Awards, or INNYs. At the Minnesota awards banquet, EPLN Editor-in-Chief Stuart Sudak and general assignment reporter Rachel Hoppe received first-pl…