Joking about getting suckered into hard labor, several University students spent Monday afternoon planting trees in the hot sun. Members of the Student Society of Arboriculture bedded four more trees...

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- Environmental groups accused Japan on Monday of bombing whale-watching vessels, creating an uproar at an international conference on whaling. Statements issued by two organizations...

A proposal to develop student housing near Dinkytown could offer respite in a time of University housing burdens, but bigger doesn't necessarily mean better to neighborhood residents opposing the project. Developer...

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Infuriating Cuban exile groups in the United States, the Bahamas returned 65 Cuban boat people to their communist homeland Monday, including three baseball defectors who had been...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Minnesota congressman wants to exclude part of the Mississippi River from a federal program that's designed to revitalize some of the nation's most significant waterways. Some 126...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) -- A helicopter crashed nose-first into a home in a suburb northwest of Chicago on Monday, killing at least four aboard. A woman alone in the brick ranch house escaped injury...

One might think that Fred Rodgers' nerves would be so shot from trying to outthink opposing quarterbacks that he wouldn't be any good for the Minnesota track team. Yet there was Rodgers on Saturday at...

It's official. No one can call the Gophers men's tennis team's title this weekend at the NCAA Region IV Championships a surprise. Disregard Minnesota's low seed (sixth out of eight teams), throw out the...

In its largest annual hire in more than a decade, the College of Liberal Arts will bring 33 professors to campus this fall. The hire is the result of a flourishing University economy, and the new arrivals...

FRESNO, Calif. -- The Gophers softball team knew at the beginning of the season that its pitching staff would be the key to this season. What head coach Lisa Bernstein-O'Brien did not know was that her...