Erin Rupp donned pipe-cleaner antennae and stood outside the Home Depot in northeast Minneapolis on Wednesday to make a point about helping bees survive. “If you’re a homeowner and you want to plant more bee forage — which is one of the major ways to help bees — right now you don’t have many choices,” Rupp said.…

Reports of sexual assault at Minnesota colleges have risen sharply in recent years, lending urgency to a national call to bring down the number of sex offenses that occur on campuses across the country. The University of Minnesota, which has had two high-profile rape cases this school year, reported 31 percent more sexual assaults in…

David Norlund went home with nine separate medications when he left the hospital after treatment for pulmonary disease last month. With so much to keep track of, it’s no wonder that roughly one in five older patients winds up back in the hospital within a month of being discharged — a number that is costly…

Before she reaches her first birthday, a black child in Minnesota is more than twice as likely to die as a white child. An American Indian high school student is twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts as his white classmate. And Hispanic Minnesotans are three times as likely to be uninsured as their white…