Late last year, the Minneapolis City Council updated their Climate Action Plan with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2025 using 2006 numbers as a baseline. The council recognized...

  Massachusetts Senator John Kerry was formally confirmed by the U.S. Senate this afternoon; he will replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose last day at the State Department is Friday. Most senators...

A White House official announced that President Barack Obama will visit Minneapolis on Monday, the Star Tribune posted in a blog.   No further details have been released regarding the president's...

Plenty of stats get thrown around about points per game, shooting percentage and overall effectiveness to describe a team’s offense. But in the Gophers’ four-game losing streak, who has been...

Guaranteed to have a massive turnout, the Univeristy of Minnesota will host a program exploring female sexuality and the "big O" this April. Sex and relationship educators Marshall Miller and...

On Feb. 3 we will observe the hundredth anniversary of the income tax. In 1913, only a very small percentage of wage earners were subject to the tax. As time has gone by, practically all of us have come...