Like the pillars of a pier, brothers Norman and Frank Holley have quietly withstood the current of time; they fish and watch the city change along the banks of the Mississippi. "I've come here since the...

Thousands of fans followed the Gophers men's basketball team down the road to the Final Four. Now the University archivists are looking for some of those fans to help them capture their experiences for...

Expressions of pain and anger can take many forms, and for University students and victims of sexual assault, T-shirts can serve as a canvas for their feelings. The Program Against Sexual Violence, a...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A retired Russian naval captain, accused of treason for exposing potential radioactive contamination, was among seven winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded on Monday. Other...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- David Parker first started looking into child labor as a research project at the Minnesota Health Department. But it soon became his passion. The epidemiologist took a camera and, using...

The University's Institute on Race and Poverty aspires to expand its research and influence with new grant money. The institute recently received $240,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The grant, spread...

The American political system is corrupt, and it is up to the citizens to correct it, award-winning columnist Molly Ivins said Monday night. "It is our problem, not them in Washington, to fix what is...

Liggett Group Inc. President Bennet Lebow has gone from merchant of death to modern day crusader in just a few short weeks, thanks to his decision to break ranks with big tobacco companies and admit that...

In the last two games that Gophers softball pitcher Steph Klaviter has started, Jennifer Johnson has come on in relief to earn the save. Stress the earn on that. In two consecutive starts, Klaviter plowed...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- What makes that morning whiff of coffee so alluring? It could be your nose telling you, "Drink up, it's good for you." A University of California-Davis chemist found that the beguiling...