Though many minimum wage earners are celebrating an upcoming pay hike, University of Minnesota-area businesses are reluctantly preparing for the change.
Local business owners say they may adjust their...
Emerald ash borers are destroying ecosystems across the state, and University of Minnesota researchers are asking for state funding to help stop them.
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource...
University of Minnesota students led an effort to ban licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation change therapy to children, but their attempt this legislative session fell short.
Political...
In high school, Tessa Ries watched a movie clip on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Norman Borlaug, a University of Minnesota alumnus who is credited worldwide with helping developing countries through his research.
The...
The city of Minneapolis will lift winter parking restrictions Thursday at 10 a.m. after more than a month of limiting parking spots on non-snow emergency routes.
Prior to the change — which came...
Legislators are mulling proposals this session that aim to reduce gender segregation in the workplace by promoting nontraditional occupations and alleviating payment disparities between men and women.
Sen....
A proposal that aims to decrease bullying in Minnesota schools will get its start at the Capitol on Wednesday.
OutFront Minnesota and Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, leaders in last year’s effort...
House of Representatives committee members support a proposal that aims to combat the use and distribution of synthetic drugs in Minnesota.
The bill’s author, Rep. Erik Simonson, DFL-Duluth, said...
Minnesota’s 2014 legislative session began last Tuesday, and the Minnesota Senate has already introduced several bills, including some that may directly affect the University of Minnesota community.
State...
About 50 activists marched through downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, demanding an increase to the state’s minimum wage.
Two workers’ groups — the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos...
Minnesota’s 2014 legislative session started Tuesday, and the Minnesota House of Representatives has already introduced several bills — including some that may affect the University of Minnesota...
New leadership and transportation initiatives in Hennepin County may make biking safer and easier.
Hennepin County added a bicycle and pedestrian coordinator position to address biking issues in the metro...
Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives toured labs on the University’s St. Paul campus Thursday to evaluate whether buildings need state funding for expansion or upkeep.
Representatives...
The University of Minnesota is extending the deadline to receive a full refund for dropped classes this semester.
Because Monday classes haven’t happened yet due to a holiday and University-wide...
Minneapolis-based Valspar Corporation plans to donate $1 million over the next five years for high-tech equipment in the University of Minnesota’s new undergraduate materials science lab.
The lab...
The light rail between Minneapolis and St. Paul will open June 14, nearly six months earlier than required, the Star Tribune reported.
There are 18 new stations, including stops on West Bank, East...
Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding proposal fell nearly $114 million short of the University of Minnesota’s 2014 capital request.
Though Dayton’s plan — released Wednesday — provides...
Governor Mark Dayton’s bonding proposal released Wednesday provides funding for three University of Minnesota construction projects, totaling $118.7 million.
In its 2014 capital request, the University...
