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December 10, 2015 8:57 AM

Ramsey Lewis to play holiday classics at the Dakota

Lewis has won three Grammys and in 2007 earned a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award.

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December 10, 2015 8:44 AM

Franken says mental health, counseling key parts of new education law

President Obama is expected to sign a bill today that replaces the controversial No Child Left Behind legislation.

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December 10, 2015 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: A look at Christmas during WWII

This week on Art Hounds: "Christmas in the Airwaves," fiber art in Hutchinson and "Manhattan Nutcracker."

by Marianne Combs

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December 9, 2015 5:49 PM

Minneapolis plans to accelerate police-community training

Minneapolis leaders announced plans to speed the pace of police training under a federal effort launched months before the police shooting death of Jamar Clark.

by Brandt Williams

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December 9, 2015 8:56 AM

Transgender actress in Lou Reed song dies

Holly Woodlawn passed away Sunday in Los Angeles at the age of 69. She had been battling cancer.

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December 9, 2015 7:40 AM

Kaler relieved report shows no culture of sex harassment in athletics dept.

External investigators are recommending several policy changes for the University of Minnesota athletics department to prevent future sexual harassment.

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December 9, 2015 4:00 AM

Coleman, mayors address Mississippi River issues at Paris climate talks

Members of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative traveled to the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in France to learn how other river communities are addressing the challenges of water quality and climate change.

by Mark Steil

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December 9, 2015 4:00 AM

Artist renders social causes in posters and prints

Ricardo Levins Morales diagnoses social ills, and then offers a kind of medicine in response.

by Marianne Combs

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December 9, 2015 12:51 AM

St. Paul schools chief to union: Safety solutions must fit budget

Saying she was "deeply concerned" about teachers threatening to strike over school safety, Superintendent Valeria Silva said Wednesday she was committed to finding solutions but cautioned the district can't afford all of what the union wants.

by MPR News Staff