WASHINGTON (AP) -- A good corn crop helped give six Plains states the best income growth in the nation last year. By contrast, income growth in Hawaii and Alaska failed to even keep up with inflation,...

Chris Vetter The slow-moving budget machine will make another stop in its trek toward the final University funding allocation sometime this week. The higher education funding bill will move to conference...

Although University President Nils Hasselmo is still in charge for a few more months, we recently caught a glimpse of the University's future under a new administration. In his first major move since being...

BIARO, Zaire (AP) --Thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees emerged from hiding in the jungles of eastern Zaire on Monday, their hunger more powerful than their fear of the mobs that drove them from squalid...

Fairview-University Medical Center will close its Delaware Street patient and visitor parking ramp on Wednesday to begin constructing two new levels. With the ramp out of commission for about six weeks,...

A tableful of empty margarita glasses cluttered the speckled kitchen table. Elmo sat, puffy tear-stained cheeks propped in his hands. "I want to be alone," he said in his best Garbo imitation. Nothing...

Higher visibility of issues like the coming out of Ellen DeGeneres' character in this week's "Ellen" episode leads one writer to conclude that media are becoming more comfortable with discussions of homosexuality. Michelangelo...

When Beth Zemsky was 5 years old, she heard several children on the school playground call her brother a "fag" after he fell down. At the time, she thought the word meant klutz. "I knew a fag was something...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a weekly series, discussing the diverse neighborhoods surrounding the University's Twin Cities campus. On many spring afternoons, Dinkytown becomes a bustling hub...

The Gophers men's track team's record-holding pole vaulter Vesa Rantanen, thrower Jason Schlueter and the 4x110 meter shuttle hurdle relay squad each captured first-place finishes at the Drake Relays...