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I keep a quote torn from a calendar posted by the computer where I write these columns. 'Tell the truth even if it hurts, especially if it hurts,' said Hubert [...]

Out of her own grief, Linnell Sathers took the time to contact me last week and raise a very important point on behalf of the generous Minnesotans contributing funds for [...]

They dine at the finest Twin Cities restaurants. They see the latest movies and attend openings of plays at the toniest theaters. They spend hours listening to music or gazing [...]

Every day, Star Tribune reporters make extensive 'cop checks' and 'court checks' in an elaborate system intended to ensure nothing important or just plain interesting slips through the justice system [...]

The buzz after Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech on the U.S. Senate floor in July was about how her V-neck allowed for a tiny glimpse of cleavage. After a recent presidential [...]

Reporter Kevin Giles would later write that he thought the 'huge brown cloud' he could see from University Avenue on his way home was from Interstate 35W bridge construction. But [...]

There are days when news stories fall from the sky like ripe plums, too many to chase all at once. Then there is late July, when wrenching a single hot [...]

Of these stories, which two would you put at the top of page one? - Park Nicollet Clinic cracks down on medical file privacy. - The last of three Minneapolis [...]

If the story had stopped with the simple premise that it's good to make sure you drink enough water when you exercise, it wouldn't have exercised Dr. Steven Miles, professor [...]

Doom-filled predictions about newspapers have given the whole industry a bad case of jitters about the future. But something of an antidote has arrived in this newsroom: The summer interns [...]

Who would have thought, with a media circus surrounding Paris Hilton's release from jail and Rupert Murdoch inching perilously close to owning the Wall Street Journal, that the Star Tribune [...]

Debates about words are chronic in newsrooms. Words can have double meanings, can be weighted with history, can inspire and can wound. Choose the wrong word, or choose a controversial [...]

Vita.mn is the Star Tribune's free entertainment tabloid aimed at people in their 20s who are hard to attract to the traditional newspaper. Much of the content is arts and [...]

The lesson went like this: Reporters have to go places other people are trying to flee. They have to interview people on the worst days of their lives. They have [...]

It was clear early Tuesday that reporters were struggling to get an answer to an obvious question: Was Brian William Skold, killed by police after he allegedly fired shots at [...]

Plans to reorganize the newsroom and change coverage priorities in the wake of a staff cutback in the newsroom spurred a big reaction from readers last week. Some were disturbed [...]

For a couple of years, the staff at this newspaper has watched other large metro dailies around the country and even right across the river in St. Paul endure painful [...]

The details of the news story were so grotesque, Editor Nancy Barnes recalled that she froze when she heard them, unable to absorb the facts. A 17-year-old had given birth [...]

Most days, the Twin Cities newspaper war - one of the last, great newspaper brawls in the country - smolders behind the paper, ink and websites, invisible to readers. Editors [...]

Two of the paper's top political journalists - reporter Eric Black and state government editor D.J. Tice - have a fascinating experiment underway online that's lively, enticing (250,000 page views [...]

As the nation's newspaper editors gathered in Los Angeles last week for their annual convention, the Star Tribune was honored with a 'Diversity Pacesetter Award.' It was among the few [...]

Stan Feldman started his newspaper reading Tuesday morning with the New York Times, interested in a page one story about White House involvement in the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors. [...]

In the long, hot summer of 1968 when I turned 12, my friends and I roamed freely, making our own fun with nightly flashlight tag, dog shows of motley local [...]

Every so often Chris O'Connor, the unfailingly genial woman who answers the city desk phones early in the morning, levels a knowing look at me when I arrive and says, [...]

In a week, Nancy Barnes will step into her new role as editor of the Star Tribune. She comes to the job in a time of uncertainty - in the [...]

A story reports that an otherwise healthy 8-year-old child has died from the flu. First comes sorrow for the family that has experienced such a horrendous and unexpected loss. Then [...]