At the end of each year, University Police Chief Joy Rikala looks over the year's crime statistics and determines areas in which the police have improved and those that they need to work on. As last year's...

OREGON, Mo. -- A Minnesota man faces two felony charges after authorities said he stole an ambulance in Kansas City and drove it nearly 100 miles before police road spikes stopped him. Shawn Goodwater,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Half of the high school students in a new survey feel less than challenged at school. But that doesn't mean they are eager to take calculus, advanced science or Shakespeare. Instead,...

Voting begins today in faculty union elections that will determine whether the University will become the nation's largest unionized institution of higher learning. University faculty members will be...

On the West Bank of the University, the new building for the Carlson School of Management is rising above its surroundings, a capitalist parvenu in the academic groves, a private-sector colossus of green...

Kiaora Bohlool came all the way from Hawaii to Minnesota in the fall of 1994 to live in a completely different environment from the one she knew. Like most of the first-year students facing a large campus...

Cotton candy, horse manure and country music made Elmo's weekend trip to the rodeo a huge success. "Cowboys are so cool," Elmo thought."Maybe I should try to cut a calf and ride a bull just like the olden...

The need for student governance isn't just a need for representation, but also a symbol of the power of students choosing how they want to be represented. On any college campus, it is imperative for student...

Before Saturday's swim meet against Iowa at the University Aquatic Center, Gophers women's swimming coach Jean Freeman allowed all of her seniors sign up for one event in which they wanted to compete....

On Saturday night, about 20 minutes after the Gophers hockey team wrapped up a sweep of Northern Michigan with a 2-1 win, Minnesota players began filtering out of the locker room wearing their usual dress...