The two-term board member will start Thursday.

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS STORY IS PART OF A SIX-PART SERIES COVERING BILLS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY FAILED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE BUT ARE STILL REINTRODUCED YEAR AFTER YEAR.

Problems involving parolees from California's overcrowded prison system have long beset state officials.

100 former service members were hired nationally as outreach specialists.

The National Weather Service lowered its crest forecast for Wahpeton and its cross-river neighbor, Breckenridge, Minn., downward to 18 feet by Wednesday morning, well below the tops of their dikes.

The 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano, roughly 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, last erupted during a four-month period from 1989-90.

Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old.

A portable wall system that shielded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from bullets is being used to hold back floodwaters from the Red River.

City officials planned to fill more than 1 million sandbags, but with more rain forecast they increased the need to nearly 2 million sandbags.

The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus would go unaffected because it doesn’t use state money for athletic scholarships.