WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced earlier in September she would retire. Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve, the league’s all-time winningest coach and two-time WNBA Executive of the Yea...

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Napheesa Collier was back on her home court after an ankle injury and surgery caused her to miss the first half of the season.

Napheesa Collier was sidelined by a left ankle injury sustained in a semifinals game last season against the Phoenix Mercury. She had double ankle surgery during the WNBA offseason.

The Minnesota Lynx play the New York Liberty at home Saturday. The game comes just days after coach Cheryl Reeve broke the WNBA regular-season win record.

She broke the record Wednesday with an 86-80 win over the Connecticut Sun. It marked Reeve's 380th win, which breaks the record for the all-time most regular-season wins for a WNBA coach.

There are 36 official new fair foods this year and nine new vendors who’ll be making their debut at the annual Great Minnesota Get-Together.

The Minnesota Lynx had an exciting mid-season week of accolades. Just a day after being named a starter for the All-Star game, Olivia Miles was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month for the second mo...

Olivia Miles of the Minnesota Lynx is the only rookie named to be a starter in the 2026 WNBA All-Stars. She becomes only the second rookie in franchise history to be selected as a starter after Maya M...

Olivia Miles of the Minnesota Lynx is the only rookie named to be a starter in the 2026 WNBA All-Stars. She becomes only the second rookie in franchise history to be selected as a starter after Maya M...

The flood of federal immigration agents into the Twin Cities faded slowly over the spring. But in suburban Columbia Heights, educators, students and community members say the trauma lingers.

Napheesa Collier and Dorka Juhász have returned to practice after an offseason filled with injury and being sidelined by a recovery that has kept them away for a little over a quarter of the 2026 seas...

Women’s basketball fans packed by the hundreds into the Tennessee Theater in Knoxville to celebrate eight inductees to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, including Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl R...

Women’s basketball fans packed by the hundreds into the Tennessee Theater in Knoxville to celebrate eight inductees to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, including Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl R...

Ahead of Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday, current and former players and mentors praise her drive, passion, leadership and frien...

The Rebel Loon, a round graphic of the state bird with wings outstretched above it — has become a symbol of Minnesotan's response to the immigration enforcement surge. It didn’t take long for the arts...

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TCU’s point guard Olivia Miles will join the Minnesota Lynx in a reshaped team.

With the expansion draft, new contract and veteran players entering free agency, WNBA teams — including the Minnesota Lynx — may look much different this season.

Hamline University in St. Paul is one of many colleges that found itself immersed in a surrounding neighborhood impacted by ICE arrests and raids. Now, months after the height of the operation’s surge...

After days of 50-degree weather the past few weeks, deep down, some Minnesotans knew the state was in for another blast which came over the weekend. Rochester was in the region hit hardest by a late-w...

A new operetta at Minneapolis’ Open Eye Theatre reimagines the life and poetry of Pulitzer Prize–winning University of Minnesota professor John Berryman through a dreamlike staging that explores the w...

Township elections are being held across Minnesota on March 10. They are uniquely hyper-local with voters serving two purposes: electing their township board and deciding the future of their township ...

As the Harlem Globetrotters tour the country, veteran player Fatima “TNT” Lister reflects on a career built around performance, community connection and the responsibility of being a highly visible wo...

Several of the 13 “worst of the worst” criminals that the Department of Homeland Security said were arrested in Minnesota through its immigration enforcement operation were actually handed over to ICE...

Ante el aumento de las operaciones de control migratorio en Minnesota, muchas personas se hacen una pregunta simple pero importante: ¿Cuáles son mis derechos si los agentes de ICE se acercan a mí?

MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

With immigration enforcement activity increasing across Minnesota, many people are asking a simple but urgent question: What are my rights if ICE or other federal agents approach me?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's directors voted the organization out of business Monday. The private agency, which has distributed federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of local television and radio stations across the country for more than a half-century, saw its appropriations from Co

History will be made in St. Paul on Friday when Kaohly Her becomes the city’s first Hmong mayor and the first woman to hold the title. On top of all that, St. Paul’s entirely elected leadership is now...

With the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan just weeks away, the rosters for U.S. ice hockey and Paralympic Sled hockey have been announced. The ice hockey teams host a slew of Minnesotans and...

A company allegedly used to launder money stolen from the government in the Feeding Our Future fraud case owns five houses where taxpayer-funded group homes operate. Those group homes have collected m...