More than 100 people meandered through the Hennepin County Government Center plaza in Minneapolis on Tuesday to view giant-sized billboards with images symbolizing cultural understanding. The 38 billboard-sized...

Minneapolis City Council member Paul Zerby, 2nd Ward, led a chorus of city officials and several University student-athletes and coaches Friday in the "Minnesota Rouser" in the council chambers. Zerby...

A small gathering of early risers graced the basement breakfast table on Friday morning at the Wales House. Chatting over grapefruit and cereal, the tenants prepared for a day researching at the University. Underneath...

Approximately 50 people gathered Monday on Northrop Plaza to listen to poetry, prayers and the story of a Holocaust survivor in observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Every year on this...

During their year-end meeting Wednesday night at Coffman Union, the University College Republicans chanted a robust "Minnesota Rouser" with the help of a U.S. senator. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., spoke...

A memorial site to celebrate the memory of three University students who died in a Dinkytown house fire last September was approved Wednesday by the Minneapolis Park Board. The site, consisting of a plaque...

Today the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group will host the seventh annual Take Back the Night march and rally against domestic abuse and sexual violence. The rally starts at 6 p.m. at Boom Island...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore who was missing for more than four days last week faked her abduction, police said Friday. "We do not believe there is a suspect at large, period," said Assistant...

University sophomore Stephanie Jones is searching for her friend who has been missing since early Saturday morning. "I've known her since I was 4 years old," Jones said about University of Wisconsin-Madison...

The State Legislature named Oct. 16 "Dr. Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Day" after a former University professor, student and wrestler for his 90th birthday Thursday. Borlaug earned a bachelor's degree...

A frequently used street in Dinkytown will undergo reconstruction this summer with help from the University. A Minneapolis City Council committee approved plans Wednesday for the reconstruction of 15th...

The Minneapolis City Council approved a change in the smoke detector ordinance Friday that will require any smoke alarm within 20 feet of a cooking appliance to have a silencing switch. The ordinance change,...

Politics and rock music collided at Rock the Cauc on Saturday. More than 100 concertgoers shuffled into the dimly lit The Whole in Coffman Union to listen to local bands Down Risen, Building Better Bombs...

The state House Higher Education Finance Committee will likely advocate for an increase to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's University capital bonding proposal, the committee's chairman said Monday. Chairman Doug Stang,...

University junior Sarah Scripps parked her convertible one night in November on the street near her Marcy-Holmes neighborhood home only to find it broken into the next morning. Scripps said the thief broke...

Student-renters in neighborhoods near the University will soon have an easier time interpreting their rental leases, a newly formed landlord group said Friday. In an effort to better its relationship with...