CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) -- Fleets of helicopters and airplanes roared through Southern California canyons Tuesday, dropping water on erratic, wind-blown wildfires that have burned 95 houses and injured six...

University lawyers and faculty representatives still can't completely agree on who should be allowed to vote in a possible union election. The two sides met Monday for the third time in a month to discuss...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Deepening a sense of crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Palestinian negotiators unexpectedly walked out of talks in Jerusalem Monday night. The walkout came hours after U.S. mediator...

A column last week by Kris Henry ("Love your brother, not his boyfriend," Oct. 17) contained several points that I, as a Christian, felt demanded a response. The article basically amounted to a sarcastic...

Minnesota Student Association members will vote on a resolution today requesting the removal of a portrait of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from Wilson Library. The authors of the resolution,...

Casey Hankinson has never been known as one of the quieter members of the Gophers hockey team. Whether it's on the ice or in the locker room, Hankinson speaks his mind. Even as a sophomore on a team filled...

Our feet have been fighting a war against mass-produced shoes since the 1700s, and a new method developed by a University researcher may help us even the odds. Susan Sokolowski, a doctoral candidate in...

The men's golf team finished its fall season with a seventh-place tie Monday at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C. The Gophers final round dropped them from a sixth-place finish to a seventh-place tie...

At a media luncheon earlier this season, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said split end Ryan Thelwell has "probably the most beautiful smile in the world." That smile was mostly absent following the...

Saturday's pathetic Homecoming loss to Michigan State was the last straw. The 27-9 trouncing was the football team's 10th-straight Big Ten loss and virtually seals the Gophers fate of yet another losing...