The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously Friday to loosen snow emergency parking restrictions. The change will allow residents to park on streets that have been fully plowed even if a snow emergency...

The University is celebrating Founders' Week starting Monday with a variety of events on campus. The celebration marks the University's 151st birthday on Feb. 25, a day after a performance by the University...

The market might have been dismal for the Dow on Monday, but a few specialty stocks gained heavily. Defense industry stocks, such as Edina-based Alliant Techsystems Inc., spiked as investors bailed primarily...

The mood was somber and contemplative at Northrop Mall on Friday afternoon as hundreds of University students, faculty and community members gathered in recognition of the National Day of Mourning. Community...

One of the best ways to combat the problem of global warming might depend more on conservation than innovation, says Mark Muller. Muller, a senior associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,...

Throughout the world and close to home Monday, protesters demanding better wages and a fairer slice of the global pie for local workers clashed with police. In London, protesters trashed a McDonald's restaurant...

After reviewing all 37 pounds of the Twin Cities light-rail plan and conducting lengthy meetings with state officials, federal agencies have given the rail program the green light to move into the project's...

Central African nation Chad has always had a few problems. The nation has been plagued by violence and government corruption since it gained independence from France more than 35 years ago. But if a key...

Earlier this month, the University of Oregon decided to join the Worker Rights Consortium. Now, in the coming weeks, the school might be faced with another important decision: how to come up with an extra...

After having been arrested twice for possession of marijuana, University Institute of Technology freshman Ben Shaffer decided to do something about it. Shaffer and a handful of students convened Thursday...

When the University's Licensee Labor Practices Task Force issued its recommendation that the University join the Worker Rights Consortium to University President Mark Yudof more than a month ago, both...

NEW YORK CITY -- Up a diminutive, creaky staircase, through the last door on the second floor of the Judson House in Greenwich Village, exists a cramped, cluttered one-room office with little more than...

University President Mark Yudof's decision last month to join the Worker Rights Consortium might eventually lighten the University's pocketbook by more than just the price of WRC dues. Last Thursday, Nike...

A resolution to the sweatshop debate is less than a week away, University President Mark Yudof said Wednesday, and all signs point to University affiliation with the Worker Rights Consortium. Speaking...

As of Monday afternoon, University President Mark Yudof has a sizable addition to his bedtime reading list, a lot of thinking to do and a litany of students, faculty members and community members eagerly...

As an increasing number of households obtain Internet access, entrepreneurs nationwide are scrambling to make online shopping a way of life for many Americans. University alumnus Andy Stergachis, director...

When asked how he has changed since his investigations of the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals, Kenneth Starr says he's grown "a little older, and a lot wiser." On campus Monday, Starr took to the...

Bringing national activism to the local level, about 20 Macalester College students took over a top administrative office Monday for a sit-in to demand Macalester officials to withdraw from the Fair Labor...

The University took its first major step last week toward preventing the use of sweatshops in the production of Golden Gopher apparel. In a recommendation to the University's Fair Labor Task Force, the...

University students scanning the channels late Wednesday afternoon might have caught sight of a familiar face in an unusual place. Jan Gangelhoff, the former University tutor involved in the University's...

Armed with banners and signs whipping in the bitter downtown winds, about 150 protesters assembled in front of the Minneapolis Federal District Court building Monday to protest the acquittal of four New...

If this week's events at three Big Ten institutions are any indication, University sweatshop activists might soon win their battle to ensure the school's apparel is manufactured in humane working conditions. Student...

Visitors to the University campus in the mid-19th century would have had little difficulty learning their way around the area. For nearly 20 years, the entire Twin Cities campus consisted of only one building. Old...

With four columns of text, a few small headlines and a lone number chart, the front page of The Minnesota Daily was born. And from a single room in the Old Main, a University building that burned down...

It was a tough Tuesday for the Fair Labor Association. In Philadelphia, 30 University of Pennsylvania students ended an eight-day sit-in at a campus administration building after school President Judith...

Interested couples had an opportunity to examine the wild side of sex Saturday at the University's Bell Museum. The event marked the museum's third annual "Birds and Bees" event, a two-hour program highlighting...

Despite recent conflict-of-interest allegations, the University's Student Services Fees Committee announced Monday all of its members will be allowed to vote on the entirety of this year's funding proposals. The...

A University-led agricultural consortium has received funding for a program designed to give Minnesota farmers more beans for their buck. The researchers have been given $3.84 million from the U.S. Department...

Minneapolis Public Interest Research Group organizers are stepping up lobbying efforts as this year's state legislative session kicks off. MPIRG, in coordination with more than 20 other local environmental...

Several members of the University's fees committee drew criticism last week for allegedly failing to disclose a conflict of interest on their committee applications. Four University students contacted...

Minneapolis' strategic planning and financial management were credited as making the city one of the top five most effectively run city governments in the country, according to a report released Monday. The...

Six protesters arrested in last month's raid of Camp Coldwater were convicted of obstructing a highway in Hennepin County Court on Thursday morning. The charges stemmed from the Dec. 11 raid in which 34...

Each year as the fall academic term begins, about 800 incoming University students pay $90 to board buses headed for unknown locations. When the buses stop, the students disembark and find themselves on...

Consumer rights organization Minneapolis Public Interest Research Group, or MPIRG, will expand its presence on the St. Paul campus with a series of meetings and events beginning this week. Organizers say...

Anne McAlpine has been at work for an eternity in just under two hours. "Today is the worst day. It's a mad rush to get books," said McAlpine, a cashier at Student Book Store, as she peered out from a...

Coldwater Springs runs south of 54th Street in Minneapolis, cutting through the proposed Highway 55 reroute. The area has been thrust into the center of attention by an area agency. The stream and nearby...

Construction of the Twin Cities light-rail system received heavy criticism Tuesday as grassroots community leaders, lawmakers and academics took shots at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The...

Every time University students turn on their lights, 10 percent of the energy ruins the lives of indigenous Canadian peoples, according to Cree Indian Nation officials. Minneapolis-based Northern States...

A grainy black-and-white photo depicts an interracial couple walking hand in hand with the bold headline, "Hey, white girl! Race mixing is a crime." The National Socialist Movement, a Nazi group posing...

After eight years, Twin Cities emissions-testing stations closed permanently Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency said in October that the Twin Cities area met its safety standards for atmospheric...

Two decades of consolidations have put large corporations in control of a growing majority of U.S. agricultural production. Because most family farmers are unable to compete with giants like Cargill or...

A Minneapolis couple has accused the Minnesota Department of Transportation of falsifying federal documents and mishandling records taken at meetings for the Minneapolis Light Rail Transit project. In...

It wasn't reaching the summit of Mt. Everest in June that made Conrad Anker famous; it was what he found along the way: the body of famed mountaineer Sir George Mallory. Anker was at the University on...

A new national environmental boycott is designed to punish soft-drink giant Coca-Cola Co. right where it hurts: the work force. Last month's national collegiate eco-conference spawned the employment boycott...

With a stroke of Gov. Jesse Ventura's pen, the multibillion-dollar Minnesota Light-Rail Transit project is back on track. Despite a recent cost-benefit analysis by the state Department of Transportation...

The Minnesota Student Association is urging University officials to find an alternative sweatshop-monitoring organization willing to critically examine factories producing Golden Gopher labels. On Tuesday,...

Students planning to apply for federal financial aid should prepare to divulge more than just their social security number, university and address. The U.S. Department of Education published final rulings...

According to a University study published today in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, breast-feeding might significantly lower the risk of leukemia in children. Researchers found that the risk...

Students who thought they noticed answer-searching classmates peering over their shoulders during midterms recently might not have imagined things. According to researchers at Rutgers and Columbia universities,...

Veteran University students might find it increasingly difficult to pull the wool over the eyes of incoming freshmen. The percentage of freshmen meeting the University's high school- preparatory standards...