The national program targets low-income school districts and has never placed teachers in Minnesota. (01/05/2009)

A study group will report its findings to the Legislature this month on whether Minnesota should change its child custody laws. At issue is whether judges should automatically presume that children split their time living with each of their divorced parents. (01/05/2009)

The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota is having a busy winter. Snowy owls are among the rehab center's patients. (12/30/2008)

A Minnesota board has certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, but a Coleman attorney said a legal challenge will be filed within 24 hours. (01/05/2009)

Changes in Minnesota's Green Acres program have some farmers preparing to plow up wetlands and cut down windbreaks. (01/08/2009)

A failed ballot question in November sealed the fate for this school district, about an hour's drive west of Minneapolis. (01/02/2009)

President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as an extraordinary event on Wednesday. The presidents and Obama were having lunch in a private dining room off the Oval Office, where no one else was expected to join them. (01/07/2009)

Two brothers have watched nearly a century of state history from their northern Minnesota farm. (04/29/2008)

Democratic Senate challenger Al Franken added 176 votes to his lead in one of the tightest races in U.S. history today. (01/03/2009)

Author and humorist Garrison Keillor talked about poetry, writing and his own relationship with the library at the "Talk of the Stacks" series in November at the Hennepin County Library in downtown Minneapolis. (Midday, 12/31/2008)

It wasn't a very good Christmas for Target and other retailers. December sales numbers released today left little doubt. But, retailers are bracing themselves perhaps even tougher times ahead. (01/08/2009)

Despite the poor economy, the U.S. Census is having trouble recruiting workers for the 2010 count. Census managers in Minnesota say they're far behind their hiring goals so far. (01/02/2009)

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles conquer the Twin Cities music scene. (01/05/2009)

Homeowners facing foreclosure are increasingly hearing from third-party companies offering to negotiate better terms on their mortgages. Housing advocates say the firms represent the latest form of industry predators. (12/31/2008)

A lot of Minnesotans are going to need converter boxes to get their TVs to work when all broadcasts go digital next month. The federal government had planned to give consumers $40 coupons good toward the purchase of the boxes, but the program funding the coupons has run out of money. That means folks who haven't received coupons yet may have to pay full price for converter boxes. (01/07/2009)