A quartet of rural members of the Minnesota House say they will split from fellow Republicans and form their own caucus to oppose the incoming DFL majority.

Former U.S. agriculture secretary and Minnesota congressman Bob Bergland has died at age 90.

Top House Democrats on Sunday raised the prospect of impeachment or prison time for President Trump if it's proved that he directed illegal hush-money payments to women, adding to the legal pressure on the president over the Russia investigation and other scandals.

A spectacle of light and sound will be traveling the rails across Minnesota this week.

The stage is set for another partisan battle over taxes and spending during the 2019 legislative session that begins next month.

Less than a year after Minneapolis' Lake Calhoun was renamed Bde Maka Ska, which means White Earth Lake in the Dakota language, the city of Duluth is on the cusp of renaming a downtown park in the Ojibwe language.

The Seneca Foods water tower, which is painted like an ear of corn, has been honored on T-shirts, a design for a new Rochester flag and other only-in-Rochester ephemera. But now the quirky local landmark's fate hangs in the balance.

Meng Wanzhou was detained during a layover in Vancouver. The U.S. government says a subsidiary of Huawei violated U.S. sanctions with Iran, and that the company deceived financial institutions.

In a rematch of last February's Olympic gold medal match, the U.S. men's curling team beat Sweden on Sunday to win a Curling World Cup event in Omaha, Neb.

Minnesota is off to its best start since the '03-04 team went 15-0 and the '02-03 team went 12-0, both when first-year coach Lindsay Whalen was a player.

President Donald Trump's top pick to replace chief of staff John Kelly, Nick Ayers, is no longer expected to fill the role.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has plummeted 22 cents a gallon over the past three weeks, to $2.51.

Wisconsin's Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers said Sunday he's not optimistic that outgoing governor Scott Walker will veto bills approved by the Republican-dominated Legislature that would limit the new governor's power.

Pressure is mounting on French President Emmanuel Macron to announce concrete measures to calm protests marked by violence when he addresses the nation Monday evening.

Climate change is so dramatic in northern Alaska that the effects on hunting and erosion are very real to people who've lived their whole lives there.

General Motors is fighting to retain a valuable tax credit for electric vehicles as the nation's largest automaker tries to deal with the political fallout triggered by its plans to shutter several U.S. factories.

While opioids get all the attention, rural communities struggle with substances like meth and alcohol, too. One clinic in northern Wisconsin is building up capacity to treat all of them, using both medicine and counseling.

Comey did not identify the Americans initially investigated in connection with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election — but he said President Trump, then the Republican candidate, was not among them.

A dog that survived the catastrophic wildfire in Northern California apparently protected the ruins of his home for almost a month until his owner was able to return.