Minnesota has some of the most extreme examples of racial and ethnic change -- and changelessness -- in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. The area in and around Alexandria remains ...

Minnesota has a reputation as a liberal bastion, the only state that voted for Walter Mondale over Ronald Reagan in 1984. But that reputation obscures the fact that Minnesota’s Republican Party is ...

Call it high-tech geography. The discipline of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is quietly finding its way into many corners of modern life, and on Wednesday, a national day featuring GIS, the ...

On Dec. 15, 2018, volunteer Bart Anderson, with the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter, stepped outside his home to spend his day counting birds. He did so by numbers and species, as hundreds of ...

Aug. 9—The prominent inclusion of ethnic studies in the latest draft of Minnesota's K-12 social studies standards is attracting more criticism from conservatives. At the urging of the diverse ...

University of Minnesota professor Dwight Brown encouraged questions from his geography students. "When he was teaching, he always had some of those fun-sized candy bars," said daughter Cindy Brown ...