Using the state's credit rating to help fund the building of new dorms, as well as raising parking prices to help fund more tunnels on campus, were topics for Thursday's meeting of the Board of Regents...

The four miles that separate the St. Paul campus and Morrill Hall can seem like an unbridgeable chasm -- impossible for concerned students to cross. The St. Paul Board of Colleges is dedicated to countering...

Elementary school students had the opportunity to meet fire fighters, meet Smokey the Bear and witness a live forest fire Thursday -- all in the comfort of a University auditorium. The Bell Museum of...

Two St. Paul men suspected of raping two University students remain behind bars and beyond Minnesota state lines Thursday, after an Eau Claire County, Wis., judge set bail at $25,000 apiece. Antonio D....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Muslim clerics delayed opening a new prayer hall in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound Thursday, sidestepping -- for now -- confrontation over the most sensitive spot in the Israeli-Arab conflict. The...

Ralph Hopkins, a University sophomore, walked through a pink closet door and into the waiting arms of Goldy Gopher Thursday afternoon in a symbolic coming out. The occasion, "Coming Out With Goldy," at...

It was like an old-time revival meeting, complete with an altar call. Only this time the converts were unregistered voters, and the preacher was the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson stopped by Coffman Memorial...

Redemption came quickly for Gophers volleyball Coach Mike Hebert. Two years ago, while he was coaching at Illinois, Hebert first recruited, then rejected a high school All-American named Becky Bauer....

Infectious diseases, such as AIDS, cholera and tuberculosis, pose a serious threat to the world's population, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, one of the state's top public health officials. Osterholm, the...

This fall, 251 freshmen learned their first lesson about bureaucracy at the University when it failed to place them in permanent housing as promised. Freshmen quickly discovered that even when finding...