A resolution that would give University administrators the power to finalize the proposed merger between University Hospital and Fairview Health System will be presented today for Board of Regents approval. If...

The debate about cuts to welfare programs at all levels of government has thus far focused on the minor technical differences separating Republican and Democratic proposals. Zero critical attention has...

Lu Vail, now a senior honors student in family social science, remembers, as a young girl, mysterious jars filled with "barky and pickled stuff" sitting on top of a shelf in her grandmother's pantry. Vail's...

In hopes of talking further with the University about its steam plant plans, the Minneapolis City Council decided Friday to postpone voting on a proposed zoning code amendment until September. If passed,...

(AP) -- It's Saturday, Nov. 28, 1998. Three teams -- let's say Nebraska, Penn State and Tennessee -- are undefeated and ranked 1-2-3. The Cornhuskers are playing in the Big 12 title game, the Volunteers...

CHICAGO -- In the ever-evolving world of college football, the Big Ten had become the country's land of antiquity. It was the one place where the game's old ways stood and tradition ruled. But that appears...

CHICAGO -- It took coach Gary Barnett and his Northwestern football team nearly all of last season to earn the media's respect. And it looks like the Wildcats might have to earn it again this season. A...

A man charged with the murder of a University student is still in jail after a Hennepin County District Judge refused Wednesday to lower his bail. Louis Cardona Buggs is charged with murdering Kami Talley...

Perhaps the only thing worse than the shameless commercialization of the Olympics has been NBC's overt nationalism. In this Olympic year, the ideals of pure competition and international spectacle have...

When she was a ball girl for the Gophers in sixth grade, Kay Schmidt used to dream of playing college basketball at Minnesota. But now, all those dreams have faded. The starting Minnesota women's basketball...