The day after Thanksgiving marks the traditional start of the all-important holiday shopping season. Two huge Minnesota-based retailers -- Target and Best Buy -- are hoping for better business than they saw last year.

Farmers in Minnesota and the Dakotas could benefit from new USDA rules allowing them to market their livestock as natural.

Recall letters are going out to workers atHibbing Taconite Co. in anticipation of a staged resumption of production.

As shoppers around the nation crowded stores and malls in thewee hours Friday to grab discounts and hard-to-find items, earlyreports pointed to some renewed spending vigor.

After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis lastmonth, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly forexplanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according totranscripts released on Friday.

With Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com slashing book prices below wholesale levels, independent bookstore owners worry customers will expect them to follow suit.

Investigators think the vandals might have thought they were saving the trees from logging. But if that was their plan, it backfired.

St. Paul police have identified a15-year-old who was shot to death on Thanksgiving as Darion Joseph Smith. Two suspects are in custody.

A state trooper narrowly escaped injuryas he was enforcing a statewide crackdown on drunken drivers thatled to more that 30 arrests.

While Wordsworth and Byron were forging the age of Romantic literature, a burst of scientific discovery was happening that forever changed astronomy, chemistry, and physics. Author Richard Holmes reaches back to this period in history to understand the foundations of

Minnesota's high school football championships are underway today at the Metrodome, but their days there might be numbered.

This season's first Holidazzle parade is set for Friday night along Nicollet mall in downtown Minneapolis.

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is calling for more federal help for small businesses. Klobuchar said she plans to take up the issue when Congress returns to work next week.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar stops by Midday to answer questions about the economy, health care, climate change, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other key issues facing Congress as it returns from the Thanksgiving break Monday.

A cooperative project between colleges in Minnesota and North Dakota is encouraging high school students to consider alternative energy careers.

Jeff Ray and the Stakes perform on Radio Heartland

Cliff Eberhardt performs songs from "500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions" on Radio Heartland.