Minnesota has some of the most extreme examples of racial and ethnic change -- and changelessness -- in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. The area in and around Alexandria remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jay Leno, in one of his trademark random TV interviews with young Americans, chatted recently on a Los Angeles street with a cheerful young man decked out in blue jeans and a head of frizzy blond hair ...