The ground has just begun to thaw, yet experienced gardeners have been planning their summer landscape for more than a month. But members of the University's Minnesota Landscape Arboretum held a spring...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At times during the first two games of this weekend's series at Ohio State, the Gophers experienced moments of joy. The feeling at the end of both games, though, was exasperation, as...

ome home, Sammy. We're trying to save our city." Those are the words my mother said to me on the phone Thursday night. Idon't think I've ever heard that exact matter-of-fact tone from her before. I knew...

MOSCOW (AP) -- When the authorities picked up Oleg and Sergei, the youngsters were sleeping in telephone booths with cardboard boxes for mattresses. Wild-eyed and filthy, as snapshots taken by social workers...

As the Red River continues to rise and wreak havoc on towns along the border between Minnesota and the Dakotas, about 3,000 people from the Grand Forks area have been evacuated to nearby Crookston, Minn. Between...

The Gophers women's gymnastics team has managed throughout the course of the season to break just about every record it has ever set. This weekend, it continued to make history. For the first time ever...

Frank Zaragoza remembers a time when the Motley neighborhood of Southeast Minneapolis was a quiet place with a strong sense of community. "Forty years ago it was like a little village. Most people who...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As Minnesota's Ted Zrust prepared to pitch to Ohio State's Jason Driscoll with the Gophers' tenuous last-inning lead in peril on Saturday, the sun slipped from behind the clouds, illuminating...

Last week's revelation that Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco are holding secret settlement talks with plaintiffs suing the tobacco industry represents a critical development in decade-long efforts to curtail...

It has got to be a tough gig being a homosexual in the age of "political correctness." Who really cares that this is America, "the home of the free?" The country that prides itself on being the nation...