When Mount St. Helens exploded in May 1980, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake triggered a lateral blast that stripped forests, buried valleys in ash, and left a gray, seemingly lifeless moonscape. For years, ...

While many people, including yours truly, regularly encounter signs of the presence of badgers here in the Northland, only a ...

Lawns can be tricky to maintain, so finding yard damage can be frustrating. Here's how to tell if the perpetrator is a groundhog or something else.

The No. 3 Minnesota women’s hockey team scored five goals, while the Gopher men allowed five goals to No. 1 Michigan in a night of split results on the rink. A 5-3 win at Bemidji State improved the ...

The UDA College Nationals, dubbed "the Super Bowl of dance," is this weekend in Orlando. And for the second year in a row, WCCO has exclusive coverage of the competition, which features several ...

To beat Michigan, the top-ranked men’s hockey team in the country, the Gophers needed great goaltending and timely scoring. They received much of the former for the better part of two periods on ...

Niko Medved is going to have plenty of challenges in his first year as head coach of the Minnesota Gophers. He’s working to clean up a mess left for him by fired coach Ben Johnson. For much of the ...

The double-digit lead had vanished. Their legs had to feel like Jell-O after logging so many minutes in a slugfest. The situation felt like an “uh-oh” moment. The shorthanded Gophers men’s basketball ...

The whirlwind transfer portal season of 2026 has all but wrapped up, and the Minnesota Golden Gophers brought in quite the haul, signing 19 new student-athletes. Now that the dust has settled a bit, ...

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's underground concourse system is being altered after more than 50 years. Demolition of the Cofrin Library will sever the east-west connection of the "tunnel" ...

Jaylen Crocker-Johnson made a career-high five three-pointers to finish with 22 points and eight rebounds, and Cade Tyson had 15 points and eight rebounds, but a 12-2 run midway through the second ...

The dizzying pace of the college football transfer portal is coming to a close, and it’s time to wrap up what it means for the Gophers going into the 2026 season. Minnesota had 21 players exit after ...