A new plan to pay rideshare drivers in Minnesota got its first public airing Tuesday at the Capitol. Drivers say it offers them security, but Uber and Lyft say it doesn’t work for them.
University of Minnesota administrators are expected to begin disclosing the school’s investments in publicly-traded companies based in or doing business with Israel on Tuesday. It’s part of an agreement they reached last week with pro-Palestinian student protesters.
In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, “Brooklyn,” Colm Tóibín handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.
The 114-year-old organization says it's rebranding to Scouting America to be more inclusive. The move by the Boy Scouts after a wide-ranging child sex abuse scandal and bankruptcy.
St. Paul police officers fatally shot a woman Monday night at a home on the city’s east side. Police said the officers shot the woman after she pointed a gun at them.
Simeon Woods Richardson pitched six shutout innings of one-hit ball and the Minnesota Twins scored twice in the seventh to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1 in the opener of their four-game series.
The two teams who finished with identical 12-9-3 records, with Boston having the tie-breaking edge. Of all the aspects taken into consideration, among the most important, perhaps, was the fear of providing their opponent any additional motivation entering the best-of-five semifinal series, which opens in Toronto on Wednesday.
Federal regulators are trying to prevent bad actors from switching unknowing consumers' Obamacare coverage. Their fixes risk making enrollment so cumbersome that people won't want to sign up.
Not long ago, Olmsted County was once a reliably Republican regional center. Today, it’s a solidly Democratic outpost, where highly educated voters are consolidating in Rochester and reshaping the county’s electorate.