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“Paris Couture” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Meander Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl and “Harvest Howl” at Wildlife Science Center are among this week’s picks.

Fort Hays State University, grappling with a $2.4 million state-ordered spending cut, will close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

The spirit of modernity would influence zoos for generations. Dialogue between reformed conceptions of society and the...

Hostile states could access cameras, microphones or GPS, says Dutch spy agency amid concerns over Chinese imports Drivers have been warned that the smart features built into modern cars such as microphones, cameras and GPS trackers could be used by hostile states to spy on them. The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) called for “awareness of espionage risks around modern vehicles”, including microphones that can by switched on remotely to listen to conversations. Continue reading...

Taiwanese academic Tsai Chin-shu has returned to Taiwan, nearly eight years after his arrest in China. Tsai was the head of the Southern Taiwan Union of Cross-strait Relations Associations and…

Rideau Hall Foundation’s Indigenous Teacher Education Initiative has supported 22 projects seeking to understand and address the barriers Indigenous teachers face

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

Communities across Minnesota are gathering to honor those impacted by Native American boarding schools.

Victoria Ford of Comma, a bookshop in Minneapolis recommends Shannon Sanders’ debut novel, “The Great Wherever.”

“The Prohibited” explores the first decades of the 20th century, from Prohibition to suffrage.

‘What people eat and how they serve it’ fascinated Colwin, and not only because (as she once noted) she’d learned...

Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set out…

A five-step classroom exercise reframes research as an evolving scholarly conversation rather than a search for sources.

Alexandra Minna Stern explores the eugenic fantasies and enduring legacy of Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel ‘The Camp of the Saints.’

Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way,

Louise Erdrich has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the arts. A Pulitzer and National Book Award winner, Erdrich also co-founded Birchbark Book...

Reserving a table at Forepaugh’s restaurant when it first opened in 1976 was like booking a trip back in time.

Sheila St. Clair went missing 11 years ago; she was last seen in Duluth’s Central Hillside.

Minnesota had been bird flu-free for barely over a month and a half. The disease is now back, and it’s here early.

Roughly 20 faculty members at Bowie State University, at least one of them tenured, have been told they won’t have a job next year as administrators seek to curb the historically Black university’s $1...

Medical professionals highly recommend vaccines for both children and adults as respiratory illnesses begin to rise across Minnesota.

The cuts equal 12% to 15% of the U’s operating revenue, President Rebecca Cunningham announced Thursday.

“Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776” exhibition opens at the Weisman Art Museum, the 15th annual Lake Superior 20/20 Studio & Art Tour, a poetry performance and flag-raising in Minneapolis and Fra...

The Twin Cities Arab Film Fest is celebrating its 20th edition with the theme “Looking Forward, Looking Back.” The festival will feature a retrospective of short films by Hadi Moussally, who often exp...

Classical Athens was a polis, but so was a tiny Arcadian town such as Orchomenos. In the second century AD, the obscure...

Earlier this month, kindergarteners in Croton-on-Hudson started the school year without screens after a campaign by hundreds of local parents.

Employers have voiced skepticism about U.S. graduates’ ability to handle workplace demands.

In Rochester, new biomedical companies are growing out of Mayo Clinic. And local leaders want those companies to stay and grow in the community. But finding the right workers with the right skills is ...

There are no plans to announce the sale price, seminary officials said on their website.

A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...

Diesel prices in Minnesota are the highest they’ve ever been and it’s weighing on the people that rely on the fuel the most.

The AICHO Comic Con in Duluth, Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, the Chroma Zone Mural & Art Festival in St. Paul and the “Deviant Crop Art Show” at Can Can Wonderland are among this week’s pick...

Northland businesses and homeowners bracing for winter costs

New signage at Como Regional Park in St. Paul shares the lake’s history, ecosystem and wildlife in six languages, including the Dakota language. Two signs highlight Como Lake's cultural significance t...

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Erdrich, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who lives in Minneapolis, is an award-winning poet, editor, curator and teacher.

LAYOFFS ANNOUNCED Cedar and Stone to lay off 14 workers at Superior facility

In recent years there have been concerns about whether the monarch butterfly was a threatened species. Thanks to good weather, and an increase in their food, the pollinator’s numbers increased in 2026...

University officials said the move is part of a commitment to make college affordable.

Pallas Erdrich of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis recommends a picture book written by Richard Wagamese and illustrated by Bridget George.

The University of Utah is planning to lay off 285 to 855 staffers over the next year in a “modernization effort."

The longtime local letterpress printer is one of just three artists worldwide selected for the show, which Pope Leo XIV inaugurates Sept. 14.

Amnesty for banned aerial devices comes months after light aircraft struck Chinese capital’s tallest office tower