Big Ten womenâÄôs basketball is getting personal. With Gopher womenâÄôs basketball season starting on Sunday , the University of Minnesota is starting to use grant money awarded last spring...

HOUSTON (AP) _ After another quarter and more record profits for Exxon Mobil, Big Oil's run may be coming to an end. Even as the world's largest publicly traded oil company shattered its own U.S. record...

Anyone looking to go somewhere via automobile on the University of Minnesota campus this weekend shouldnâÄôt expect to get there quickly. With menâÄôs and womenâÄôs hockey, football...

Coaches might soon be held to a new academic standard, which could help or hurt them if they apply for different coaching positions in the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Academic Performance held meetings...

Driving three hours for a college visit may be a thing of the past for high school students as a new online resource allows college students to post their own reviews about the school they attend. Unigo.com,...

A genomics research project at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic received $1.2 million under a $7 million Minnesota state grant program, according to information released Thursday. The project,...

A new online storage facility for the digital conversion of library materials is an elephant, both in name and in size. HathiTrust, which is named after the Hindi word for elephant, was launched last Monday...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann spent months building her profile through appearances on "Larry King Live" and other TV talk shows. It took only a few minutes of airtime, and one...

Bye-bye boating, aloha ATVs. The University of Minnesota Tourism Center has found in recent years that young people around the ages of 18 to 24 are finding new, more thrilling ways to be active outdoors....

Minneapolis is being courted this week to host another menâÄôs basketball Final Four, which generated more than $47 million in revenue last year in San Antonio. Two members of the NCAA MenâÄôs...