ST. PAUL (AP) -- While the state Legislature debates how to keep the Minnesota Twins in town, a different type of athlete already is leaving the state. Equine athletes from Canterbury Park -- where the...

Your April 25 editorial, "Years of neglect haunt old buildings," which addressed the University's $1 billion deferred maintenance problem, raises a broader issue, of which building repair is only one...

Editor's note: This is the second of a three-day series on the 25th anniversary of the "Eight Days in May" antiwar demonstrations and the legacy of activism at the University.On a sunny morning last...

Tensions in Turkey are reaching explosive levels in the wake of rumors that a military coup is just around the corner. Citizens of that Middle East country are bracing for what could be the fourth such...

Gophers hockey defenseman Mike Crowley said on Monday that he's still mulling over his career options but will decide by June 1 whether he's going to return this fall for his senior season at Minnesota...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Residents were told on Monday that their tap water was safe to drink, nearly a month after flooding ravaged the city and prompted plans to prevent future floods. An order to boil...

The Gophers baseball team's elimination from the Big Ten baseball tournament became all but official after its 7-5 loss to Northwestern on Friday in the series opener. That left the last three games of...

Elmo was ready to bask in the sun, because today it would be partly sunny with highs in the upper 50s. But he missed the dark-haired Rita from his Italian class. She never seemed willing to share a cup...

The University granted its top academic positions to two new professors Friday, when the Board of Regents appointed a pair of Twin Cities faculty members to regents' professorships. Chosen for the highest...

QAEN, Iran (AP) -- Convoys of buses, trucks and pickups rushed volunteers over narrow dirt roads Sunday to the remote mountains of northeastern Iran, where the death toll from a powerful earthquake reached...