Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, lately of the film Spirited Away (currently showing at the Uptown Theater) is a greatly ambiguous filmmaker, and I adore him for it. American films sometimes seem to exist...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The frost over parts of Minnesota on Tuesday morning probably killed a lot of mosquitoes and put the spread of West Nile virus on ice. But the mosquito-borne illness will be back next...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - Two "bomb explosions." Twenty-eight people "injured." Eighteen people "killed." Those were some of the statistics officials were reviewing after a training exercise that simulated...

Losing a tobacco distributor isn't the most important concern for Erika Zurawski. As one of the 30-plus people protesting Friday the closing of the Dinkytown Tobacco Shop, she said she is angered by "the...

Many students see their place on the business ladder as somewhere near the bottom rung. Whether they're trying to get lower prices, better service or recognition for their ideas at work, students find...

Wearing jeans, a University sweatshirt and a backpack to class, she's an unassuming princess. But Sarah Olson was wearing a sparkling dress, glittering crown and banner less than a month ago. Crowned the...

If all goes as planned, legislators and Gov. Jesse Ventura will have allocated flood relief funding for northern Minnesota as early as 1 p.m. Thursday. At noon, legislators will meet for a special session,...

A University professor has helped stop the spread of a virus that cost Minnesota turkey producers $90 million in losses during the past six years. The Department of Agriculture recently approved a vaccine...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will use dogs and hunters to find and kill the bear that attacked a University researcher Sunday. Dennis Stauffer, spokesman for the DNR, said on Wednesday...

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials are considering the use of conservation hunters to kill a black bear that attacked a University wildlife researcher near Milaca, Minn., Sunday afternoon. "This...