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Lifestyle

Rebecca Kolls offers gardening ideas

Rebecca Kolls offers gardening ideas

Minnesota's famously short growing season begins and Rebecca Kolls has ideas for growing vegetables and managing your landscape.

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Band members continue plans to assert tribal rights with protest

Band members continue plans to assert tribal rights with protest

Organizers with the White Earth and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe, including Boone Wadena, above, plan to go fishing before the state walleye opener as a way to assert hunting and fishing rights they say tribal chiefs never relinquished in an 1855 treaty.
by Tom Robertson

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Youths get first crack at turkey hunting

Youths get first crack at turkey hunting

It isn't that Amber Reinking doesn't have any experience with turkeys. She raised three of them last summer at her Rice Lake Township home.

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The gift of May Day baskets, to help rebuild a community

The gift of May Day baskets, to help rebuild a community

Essayist Christina Capecchi says this year she is giving May Day baskets to her neighbors in Inver Grove Heights to help restore a spirit of community in the neighborhood.

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The limits of violent video gaming

The limits of violent video gaming

Video games that award points for killing opponents in brutal ways turns the stomachs of parents, but do they harm kids? The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case that contests California's wish to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children. Two guests who have studied the effects of video games talk about what happens when kids participate in virtual violence.

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