Fashion struts off the runway and into museum galleries
Designed for beautiful bodies and made for runway display, high-fashion clothing is increasingly at home in museums.Shows of individual designers really took off after...
Readers Write (Feb. 23): Immigration enforcement, Trump and the media, Southwest light rail and...
Wednesday’s headlines could not have been more striking. As we mourn the death of our immigrant musical hero Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who took the Minnesota...
Stand with JCCs against religion-based hate and anti-Semitic threats
On Monday, hundreds of people were forced to evacuate 11 Jewish Community Centers nationwide — all because of a series of hateful telephone threats....
Dayton: Transgender students ‘deserve our compassion’
Gov. Mark Dayton forcefully spoke out against President Donald Trump’s order to rescind federal guidance allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with...
Trump said to weigh U.S. Bancorp’s Richard Davis for Fed board seat, but company...
President Donald Trump is considering nominating U.S. Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Richard Davis for the Federal Reserve Board, said people familiar with the matter,...
Hormel profit squeezed by competition, lower prices in turkey
Hormel Foods Corp. sold more turkeys during the holidays but made less money due to low prices, its latest quarterly results showed Thursday.Turkey prices...
P.J. Fleck, Richard Pitino celebrate progress of Gophers athletes village
The tagged beam outside the window of P.J. Fleck’s office caught his eye. The message left for the new Gophers football coach read...
All talk, no action: Wolves stand pat at NBA trade deadline
The NBA trading deadline came and went Thursday afternoon without the Timberwolves making a deal.There was talk, certainly. Wolves president of basketball operations and...
Alan Colmes, liberal voice on Fox, dead at 66
NEW YORK — Alan Colmes, the radio and television host and commentator best known as the amiable liberal foil to the hard-right Sean Hannity...
St. Paul artist may be out of options to save house
The old house on the hill on St. Paul’s East Side joined the city’s list of worst vacant properties back in 2012, but you...
State reports weed out medical pot growers’ ‘trade secrets’
Minnesota’s leap into the era of legal weed began with the selection last week of two companies that will grow, process and sell medical...
Iraq retakes Mosul airport amid cautious advances against IS
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq — Closely supported by the U.S.-led international coalition, Iraqi forces secured a series of cautious advances on Thursday, pushing into...
US-born panda Bao Bao lands in China after leaving DC zoo
BEIJING — An American-born panda started settling into her new home Thursday in southwest China where she will eventually join a breeding program.Bao Bao...
Dakota Access oil pipeline camp cleared of protesters
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Authorities on Thursday cleared a protest camp where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline had gathered for the better...
7-year-old to senator at town hall: Don’t cut PBS Kids
Congress did not meet this week, with many politicians leaving Washington for their home states in what the Senate refers to as a “State...
The short, troubled life of Obama’s transgender student protections
Well-intended as they might have been, President Barack Obama's protections for transgender students were on shaky ground from the get-go.As quickly as the Obama...
Storm severity downgraded for Twin Cities, while blizzard conditions expected to south
The storm forecast for the Twin Cities was downgraded to a “winter weather advisory” Thursday afternoon, but folks to the immediate south of the...
Dayton names Blatz interim chair of U.S. Bank Stadium oversight panel
Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz will lead the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) as the interim chair of the beleaguered U.S....
Grant Cohn: Keeping Tom Rathman on 49ers staff would have been mistake
Deleting Tom Rathman from the 49ers’ coaching staff was the right move.You’re out, Tom.This has nothing to do with the type of person Rathman...
NCS basketball roundup: Healdsburg boys to face state champs
The No. 8 Healdsburg Greyhounds easily downed No. 9 Kelseyville in a North Coast Section Division 4 opening-round basketball game on Wednesday night. The...