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Celebrating nature's beauty: Wildlife Photo of the Year winners unveiled

Celebrating nature's beauty: Wildlife Photo of the Year winners unveiled

Nima Sarikhani's ethereal capture titled "Ice Bed," has been crowned the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award, a testament to the overwhelming support from over 75,000 nature enthusiasts worldwide. His mesmerizing image transports viewers to Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, where a young polar bear carves a resting place from a small iceberg, encapsulating the fragile beauty of our planet.
by Kerem Yücel

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Finding meaning in George Floyd’s death through protest art left at his murder site

Finding meaning in George Floyd’s death through protest art left at his murder site

For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems. Now hundreds of those artifacts are being displayed at an exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum. It’s the first time the work is on public display outside of Minnesota.
by The Associated Press

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K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing too much school

K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing too much school

Families will play an essential role in getting students back on track, researchers say. But it's going to take a "culture" shift around the importance of being in school.
by Cory Turner and Sequoia Carrillo

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St. Paul rec center shooter gets 10 years in plea deal

St. Paul rec center shooter gets 10 years in plea deal

A Ramsey County judge on Friday handed a decadelong sentence to a former St. Paul recreation center employee who shot and critically wounded a teenager last year. During a fight with a group of teens at the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center, Exavir Dwayne Binford Jr. pulled out a gun and shot JuVaughn Turner, then 16, in his forehead.
by Matt Sepic

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Despite record warmth and no snowfall, the world’s fastest cross-country skiers are still coming to Minneapolis

Despite record warmth and no snowfall, the world’s fastest cross-country skiers are still coming to Minneapolis

Despite a historically warm winter and hardly any natural snowfall, organizers of the first World Cup cross-country ski race to be held in the U.S. in more than 20 years are moving ahead with the race scheduled for Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis next weekend.
by Dan Kraker

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