A few shelters, including Animal Allies in Duluth, have embraced a new breed classification for the homeless dogs that turn up at their door. Advocates hope it will boost adoptions. Not everyone agrees.
As we reported on the show last week, state officials project Minnesota will have a $1.5 billion dollar budget surplus over the next two years. Now we're asking Minnesotans: What do you think we should DO with that surplus?
Researchers are studying whether it's possible to reintroduce the majestic animal to that region. They're finding that there is potentially both the habitat -- and the public acceptance -- that would be required to bring them back.
The school principal described Monday's confrontation as the product of the "poor choices of a few individuals." The altercation follows similar incidents last week.
About 20 percent of state House members who responded said they've been the victim or witness of sexual harassment. The survey results come a year after two lawmakers resigned amid harassment accusations.
The move follows an NPR investigation that found thousands of teachers had grants unfairly converted to loans.
To protect a developing fetus from experimental drugs or treatments that might cause birth defects, pregnant women aren't included in many clinical trials. But that limits the safety evidence, too.
There still are a number of colors shining underneath the thick, white snow and ice. Here's a list of spots where you can enjoy the bright colors and lights of Minnesota with your family and friends this winter.
They want a new select committee to draft sweeping new legislation for implementing the Green New Deal, which includes making U.S. economy carbon-neutral and removing greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and oceans.
A Senate subcommittee is reviewing the legal bills and will recommend to the Senate Rules Committee whether to pay them.
Higher temperatures cause more snowmelt and shorter ski seasons. Two seasons ago, the university's Nordic ski team could not participate in the American Birkebeiner, which was canceled because of warm weather.
The U.S. hosted an event on coal and refused to endorse the findings of a dire climate science report. And yet, in official negotiations, the U.S. is working out how to implement the Paris agreement.
A U.N. climate report says the only way to avoid the worst climate impacts will be to suck carbon emissions out of the air. Researchers are trying to find a feasible way to do that.
The U.K. prime minister acknowledged that it doesn't have the support needed to pass Parliament. This comes after the European Union's top court ruled the U.K. can still back out of Brexit.
Why develop an exercise habit now? Because 75-year-olds who've been doing it for decades may have the cardiovascular systems of people in their 40s and the muscles of 20-somethings, researchers found.
The case means women can continue to use Medicaid money to pay for nonabortion, pregnancy-related health care services at Planned Parenthood. Two states tried to block that.
The price of insulin keeps going up. For people with Type 1 diabetes, high prices can be a life and death issue. Now a grassroots movement is pushing for change.
Police say officers responding to reports of multiple gunshots shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday found the two victims inside a vehicle. No arrests were immediately made.
President Trump is hunting for his third chief of staff in less than two years. So far, he is not finding many takers. "You have to wonder who would want to take this job," said one scholar.
What's notable about this Bible is not just its rarity, but its contents, or rather the lack of certain contents -- it excludes any portion of text that might inspire liberation or revolt.