Personal care attendants play vital roles helping people with disabilities live as independently as possible. It's not easy work. MPR News spent some time recently with caregivers and clients at one Minnesota group home. Here's what we found.

Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors of Mexico's deadliest earthquake in decades.

Minnesota officials are pressing President Trump's administration to reverse massive planned cuts to a critical state health care program for low-income residents.

Neonicotinoid-treated seeds are winding up as food for birds and other animals, which can be toxic for the wildlife.

Independent analysts say the latest Senate Republican bill is likely to leave more people uninsured than the Affordable Care Act, and allow states to make changes that raise costs for people with health problems or pre-existing medical conditions.

Sophia Spencer was extremely fond of bugs, especially grasshoppers. Her peers didn't always appreciate her interest. Entomologists on Twitter, on the other hand, were huge fans of her passion.

Confusion over "sell by" and "use by" dates is one reason why billions of tons of food are tossed each year. A new global initiative of food giants, including Walmart and Nestle, aims to tackle that.

Equifax is already struggling to retain public trust after it waited at least a month to disclose a cyberattack that potentially impacted the personal information of millions of people.

Oxfam brought four refugees to tour Trump's boyhood home in Queens, N.Y., which had been available for rent through Airbnb, to make a point about immigration.

Maria made landfall early Wednesday in the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa as a Category 4 storm with winds of 155 mph winds, and it was expected to punish the island with life-threatening winds for 12 to 24 hours, forecasters said.

Sod House Theater brings back a small-town tradition that modern Minnesota lacks.

Rochester's chief had put Eli Umpierre on leave after receiving a complaint that she'd posted inappropriate comments about the Standing Rock protests and about police shootings. Umpierre said she was punished for being politically liberal.

The tech investor dives into the lawsuit that thrust her into the national spotlight and the workplace conditions that prompted it. She says firms are largely applying "tepid diversity solutions."

Al's Breakfast in Dinkytown has been in operation since 1950. After over three decades of consistent success, MPR reporter Dan Olson adventured into the crowded diner in 1986 to see what all the fuss was about.

Automated systems have turned the messy, ancient art of brewing into a tidy hobby requiring fairly minimal skill, and of course, a smartphone or tablet. Critics ask: Where's the craft in that?

Billboards featuring Melania Trump and the slogan "just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English" were removed Tuesday from the Croatian capital after her lawyer threatened a lawsuit.

Attorneys general from most states are broadening their investigation into the opioid industry as a nationwide overdose crisis continues to claim thousands of lives.

Despite protests that have grown violent, a Capitol security committee isn't pushing for new rules to deal with spontaneous demonstrations.

The addition of the three former monks, all of whom are deceased, brings the number of current and former monks on the St. John's list of likely abusers to 21.