The Society of Professional Journalists announced Tuesday that the Minnesota Daily had won its Mark of Excellence Award as the best daily student newspaper among the nation's four-year schools. This is...

From the White House: THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,...

As you’ve heard by now, there is a small pack of activists holed up in the Social Sciences Building on the West Bank protesting … something. Their list of demands lacks focus and the whole event reeks...

On Thursday morning police discovered the body of a missing University of Minnesota student in a rail car just off campus. Minnesota Daily reporters and photographers went to the scene, located less than...

Twin Cities media critic David Brauer may have said it best when he dubbed the comments section of news websites a âÄúcesspool.âÄù For many news organizations, anonymous handles and the...

Via The UpTake, here is Tom Emmer's concession speech:  

Update: 4:40pm: "If everybody who fought for change in 2008 votes in 2010, Mark will win this election," President Barack Obama said. "In 2008, you said, 'Yes we can.' In 2010, you have to say, 'Yes we...

In 1903, Teddy Roosevelt  applauded the Gophers football team. Eight years later, William Howard Taft  called the University of Minnesota âÄúperhaps the greatest university in the United...

For those who couldn't attend, here is a replay of Friday's gubernatorial debate, which was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Daily. theuptake on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

The three candidates for Minnesota governor met in a debate at Hamline University on Saturday night. It was a feisty affair, with the candidates taking aim at each otherâÄôs budget plans, leadership...

Tarryl Clark, Rep. Michele Bachmann's Democratic-endorsed opponent in the 6th Congressional District, announced Wednesday that her campaign had raised more than $2 million in its bid to unseat the controversial...

Update - 5:00: The Republican Party has endorsed Tom Emmer for governor. Emmer told the convention delegates they will be a part of a line of conservative victories this November. "Republicans will win...

Tom Rukavina, sporting a Kelliher campaign button, drops out of the Minnesota gubernatorial race at the DFL convention in Duluth on Saturday night. (Matt Mead, Daily) Final Ballot - 11:15: It's Kelliher. R.T....

Two Minnesota news organizations are upset over The UpTake renting space alongside them in the basement of the Capitol. Politics in Minnesota reports that an editor from the Rochester Post-Bulletin sent...

Minnesota Republicans Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann told an anti-abortion group Wednesday night that the pro-life movement is in its most pressing period of history since Roe v. Wade. Bachmann also...

Rep. Tim Walz, the two-term Democrat from southern Minnesota who voted for the health care reform bill Sunday, will be getting a little support from the Democratic National Committee following his vote.  Rep....

Sen. Al Franken will be the latest in a line of politicians to be featured in a biographic comic book from Bluewater Productions. The comic, called "Political Power: Al Franken," will profile...

The Legislature passed a bonding bill Thursday containing $1 billion in public works and construction projects, including $100 million in funds for the University of Minnesota. The passage came after Gov....

Batman, a dog whose brain cancer was successfully treated at the University of Minnesota in 2008, has died. Batman with owner Ann Brailovsky and her son, August 2008. (Daily file photo) Minnesota Public...

The Minnesota Gophers baseball team will play the first ever game at Target Field on March 27, the Minnesota Twins announced today. The Gophers will host the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs at 1 p.m. that day....

Republican David Hann, a state senator from Eden Prairie, has dropped out of the Minnesota governor's race, he announced today. Sen. David Hann Hann acknowledged that he struggled to get both popular...

Carly Fiorina is a Republican running for U.S. Senate in California. She is not pleased with a fellow Republican candidate's fiscal policies. So, her campaign launched a Web advertisement against Tom Campbell,...

The "supermarket tabloid" National Enquirer says it deserves a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of John Edwards' affair during the 2008 election. Seriously. The paper's editor Barry Levine...

Minnesota Senator Al Franken took the rare move of ending a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday. While presiding over the chamber, Franken, a Democrat, cut off Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman when Lieberman...

A glance at Ward 9 City Council candidate Dave Bicking's Web site tells you that he is "principled. Practical. Passionate." But take a second to listen to his campaign song and you'll find out...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is pulling limited support in any perspective presidential run in 2012, but Minnesota's other highest-profile Republican, U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann, has told an Iowa reporter that she...

With Minnesota's Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty looking to go national and a deep field of DFL candidates lining up for a shot at his job, The Washington Post's The Fix political blog as named Minnesota...

A woman was injured after her bicycle collided with a University of Minnesota van on the corner of Washington Avenue and Harvard Street just after 6 p.m. on Thursday. The driver of the van was traveling...

Three days after Wednesday nightâÄôs key health care address to Congress, President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday. Obama will discuss health insurance...

Citing an "informed source," Minnpost.com columnist David Brauer says President Barack Obama will be in town on Saturday to give a speech on health care. The speech, according to Bauer, is set...

Pollsters from the Minnesota House of Representatives were at the Great Minnesota Get Together over the past 12 days, polling Minnesotans on everything from spending cuts during recessions to fishing with...

Lou Holtz, the  Hall of Fame college football coach who lead the Golden Gophers for two seasons in the 1980's, could be making a run for Congress in Florida. The Orlando Sentinel reported on Monday...

As you probably heard from pretty much everybody, Norm Coleman conceded the U.S. Senate race yesterday after the Minnesota Supreme Court shot down his appeal of the recount results. Early in the afternoon...

President Obama alluded to Rep. Keith Ellison in his much-discussed speech at Cairo University in Egypt today. Ellison, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, is a Democrat who represents Minnesota's...

We're only a day removed from Gov. Tim Pawlenty's announcement that he is not running for a third term in 2010. While the news means the Presidential "will he, won't he?" begins in full force,...

A DFL representative has been reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for disparaging remarks he made about colleagues on Twitter during a floor session in early May. Paul Gardner, DFL-Shoreview, tweeted...

The Legislative session ended Monday night without a budget agreement between the DFL-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, paving the way for the governor to make good on his threat...

Senators in the higher education conference committee offered the first major proposals for a compromise on the higher education funding bill on Thursday. The conference committee is made up of senators...

The coach of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's football team had threatened to ban the school's student newspaper from covering the team after an opinion piece criticizing athletes ran in the paper. The...

Speaking on MPR today, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was asked about his thoughts on funding for a new Bell Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus. Tim Pawlenty While Pawlenty...

It's Monday, April 6, and it's the final Twins opener at the Metrodome. You won't find me there tonight, but perhaps tomorrow... I'm plotting out my championship-parade-watching spot on Nicollet Ave. as...

The Senate passed a bonding bill yesterday with $24 million in funding for a new Bell Museum of Natural History and $35 million in funding for facility upgrades and repairs for University buildings (HEAPR...

The unemployment level is the highest its been since the early 1980's but...CNN's SciTechBlog reports that it appears the economy of Second Life is actually pretty stable. Second Life users can use real...

CNN.com has a quite interesting story about members of Congress "twittering" during President Obama's address Tuesday night. Partisans from both sides used the social networking service to share...

Interesting news from Washington: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back on the Supreme Court bench today in her first public appearance since undergoing pancreatic cancer surgery earlier this month. Ruth...