Catharine Richert

The University of Minnesota Rochester wants to build a new, $10 million lab and classroom space near Mayo Clinic to train Rochester's future workforce. They say it would be a win for the growing university and the city.

The president of Rochester's NAACP chapter is running for mayor. Walé Elegbede said Thursday he will run on a platform of making Rochester more affordable, welcoming, safe and equitable for everyone living in the city.

On a chilly spring evening, Brea Schminski did what she's been doing quite often recently: knocking on doors on a quiet street in Hermantown, Minn., asking people to sign a petition.

Tarik Alduri, 24, is a DFL delegate He’s a recent political science and international studies graduate from St. Cloud State University and says he’s a relative newcomer to DFL politics — and it’s his first convention.

LaTonya Whitley Murck and her husband went to her first DFL convention.

“They’ve got to reach out to rural Minnesota, they’ve got to have a presence,” delegate Tom Schoper of Jeffers said. “It's more than FarmFest, it's more than your county fair, and it's more than Farm Bureau.”

After a late night, Democrats reconvened in Rochester with a plan to endorse a candidate for U.S. Senate.

As the candidate filing period comes to a close, the race to fill an open state Senate seat in Rochester is shaping up to become a critical battleground

A new grant program approved by state legislators last year is helping more Minnesota students get out of the classroom and into the wild to study science and nature up close and in person. For one group of kids from a St. Paul Spanish immersion school, the trip to the outdoors couldn’t have come at a better time.

Jason Lohmann had already worked a full day at the lumber yard, but his tasks for the day were hardly over.