The 2012 ice fishing season is drawing to a close. For those of you who spend time on the ice, there are a few things we can learn from this year’s ice fishing season. These are important lessons, life’s moments that will someday be the “I remember back during the winter of 2012” that will b...

The U.S. health care system is broken and the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA- Obamacare) does little to fix it. It was a significant political victory but only a small health care victory.

For the first time, state legislators in the United States may require their public universities to grant students credit for online courses given by outside providers.

Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline warn of its potentially catastrophic consequences. Building it, climate scientist James Hansen says, would mean "game over" for the climate.

My favorite moment from the opening day of the boys state basketball tournament took place before the games ever started. My second favorite moment happened after the first game at Target Center had ended. Both involved the Brainerd Warriors.

The father of Daphne Jordan submitted this story: My 14-year-old daughter, Daphne, and I went to a gun rally at the New Hampshire capitol in Concord on Saturday, Jan. 19.

All sorts of Catholics – the hurt and the whole, the progressive and the traditional – want to believe our eyes and trust all the positive signs and signals out of Rome in the week since Francis was chosen to succeed Benedict: “It’s like falling in love,” a friend said. “God help me,” ...

President Barack Obama and Congress have until March 27 to reach a budget agreement to avert a government shutdown. If they don't meet the deadline, federal agencies will halt many public services and send "non-excepted" workers home without pay.

WASHINGTON - Mariska Hargitay, better known as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Detective Olivia Benson, is the human intersection of life and art.

Both Republicans and Democrats say concern about the middle class is at the heart of the ongoing, vituperative debate over taxes, entitlements and fiscal discipline, but the political spat never seems to honestly address the gaping and growing class divide in the United States. As politicians in Was...