Southwest Minnesota farmer Harold Tilstra knows farming can be fickle. And at a time when troubled Asian economies raise concerns throughout the agricultural industry, the University's Extension Service...

Reader Ryan Brase, a senior in computer science and electrical engineering, wrote to me recently in response to an article about University e-mail accounts. The article contained computer terminology which...

The Gophers men's hockey team gets an abundance of attention for recruiting Minnesota players, but the baseball team isn't much different. Every position player that started for the Gophers at this weekend's...

Although she bought an on-campus parking permit, College of Liberal Arts freshman Sam Bias still got a ticket after she parked in an illegal area of a St. Paul lot, which she said was unmarked. And even...

University officials lured a prominent scientist away from Yale two years ago with the promise of a $3 million tool that will help him and others study the building blocks of life. As early as this month,...

West African rhythms and South African songs emanated through the walls of the Great Hall on Thursday in Coffman Union. More than 100 students, children, staff and faculty members gathered to participate...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A woman accused of beating and mutilating her 3-year-old daughter in St. Louis endured her own violent past. Clintresa Phillips, 21, saw her mother stabbed to death and has been...

LONDON (AP) -- The maker of the AIDS drug AZT said Thursday it will slash the price for pregnant women in poor countries, an unprecedented move to make AIDS drugs more widely available in the Third World. In...

"Boot" and "jumper" are two words being introduced to the Gophers men's golf team's vocabulary. With the arrival of the team's new Australian acquisition, members of the team are learning another way...

Net: We're doing our mail bag spring cleaning, and here more short notes about life at the U. Today we run responses from recent letters -- the good, the bad and the squirrely. Good day, boyz n' grrls!ON...