Ilhan Omar, incoming state House representative for District 60B, was verbally attacked while riding in a cab to her hotel in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.Omar, who was voted in November the nation’s first...

After an increase in mental health specialists, wait times for mental health services at the University have been eliminated or significantly reduced.Last year, the wait for mental health services was...

Young women at the University of Minnesota are raising scholarship money so girls in low-income countries can go to college.She’s the First is a nonprofit organization that conducts fundraising events...

Greek members at the University of Minnesota are raising their GPAs to avoid punishments and receive benefits from chapters. Leaders of the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils are making academics...

The University of Minnesota Interfraternity Council selected Simon Beck, a Phi Kappa Psi brother and finance, accounting, and applied economics junior, as its new president Sunday night.Beck, who previously...

 The University of Minnesota’s Panhellenic Council elected eight new executive board members on Sunday, including a new president, Molly Haeg.Haeg, a junior studying kinesiology and leadership,...

University of Minnesota-Crookston Chancellor Fred Wood announced Friday he will transition to chancellor at Contra Costa Community College District — his alma mater — in northern California.“While...

Minnesota United will play its first games as a Major League Soccer team at the University of Minnesota.The team will play 23 games at TCF in 2017 and 11 games in 2018 under a contract approved Friday...

The U.S. Department of Education awarded a $10 million grant to the University of Minnesota’s National Center on Educational Outcomes to fund research into testing accommodations for K-12 students with...

Contingent faculty members — positions like teaching specialists and lecturers — can be included in a faculty union at the University of Minnesota, the state Bureau of Mediation Services ruled...

A 38-year-old man was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after he chased down another man in Southeast Como Thursday with a bicycle, a shovel and a grill.Seneca Woods followed John Griffin, 47,...

The 19-year-old man who fell from a fifth story FloCo Fusion apartment balcony Saturday night has been identified as Mackenzie John Caron, University of Minnesota student.Caron landed on the concrete about...

Tim Hortons, a popular Canada-based doughnut and coffee chain, is set to open a new shop in Dinkytown. Steve Young, who owns the divided building where Sssdude-Nutz and the now-closed Bruegger’s...

With a new program set to launch early next year, mental health professionals will ride along with Minneapolis Police Department officers for calls involving people with mental illnesses, reports the Star...