Is There An Ideal Bedtime For Kids?
With just one week away from the start of school for most Minnesota students, parents are now adjusting times kids go to sleep.
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With just one week away from the start of school for most Minnesota students, parents are now adjusting times kids go to sleep.
Goldy is the mascot of the University of Minnesota. Fairchild the Gopher is the face of the Minnesota State Fair. And, since its inception, Minnesota has been known as the Gopher State.
For most Minnesota kids, school starts in about a week and half. For most parents, summer has just flown by.
Three Twin Cities engineers just took off for a special kind of cross-country trip.
People who suffer from ragweed allergies shouldn't be surprised to feel a stuffy nose or watery eyes. Doctors say mid-August is the beginning of ragweed season.
In 2018, the fair brought in $57.3 million.
Most Minnesotans know Post-It notes, the pacemaker and SPAM were invented in Minnesota, but what about the snowmobile, cortisone and the automatic thermostat? Those are all creations showcased right now at the Minnesota Science Museum exhibit celebrating our state's inventions.
It is topic that only gets more popular as the weather heats up: Should dogs be allowed at bars and restaurants?
"It's strictly local," says David Kotsonas, director of the St. Paul Growers Association. "If you're selling produce, then you grew the produce and you did so in and around the metro area."
Some Delano residents saw 4-inch, or softball-sized hail during Monday's storm – and that's only happened a few dozen times in Minnesota over the past 70 years.
In the wake of this weekend's massacres, video games have become a frequent target for politicians.
Their goal is to measure the strength and size of the twisters, not just for archival and historical purposes, but to monitor climate issues as well.
Every day, people in the seven-county metro area use 1.3 billion gallons of water. That's the equivalent of sixty fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Our state has the country's largest Somali-American population – 69,000 people. That's about 40% of everyone reporting Somali ancestry in the United States and more than four times the Somali-American population of the next largest state, Ohio.
