Call it high-tech geography. The discipline of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is quietly finding its way into many corners of modern life, and on Wednesday, a national day featuring GIS, the ...

On Dec. 15, 2018, volunteer Bart Anderson, with the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter, stepped outside his home to spend his day counting birds. He did so by numbers and species, as hundreds of ...

Aug. 9—The prominent inclusion of ethnic studies in the latest draft of Minnesota's K-12 social studies standards is attracting more criticism from conservatives. At the urging of the diverse ...

CHATFIELD — Kadin Hill knows his way around the world. The Chatfield eighth-grader regularly goes online to test his geography skills with map games, said Lee Becker, a seventh- and eighth-grade world ...

University of Minnesota professor Dwight Brown encouraged questions from his geography students. "When he was teaching, he always had some of those fun-sized candy bars," said daughter Cindy Brown ...

The stories we tell each other profoundly affect our shared lives. For 43 years, the story this newspaper has allowed me to tell is about the unique state I've adopted as my home — and about the ...