The National Weather Service has renewed its Extreme Heat Warning for the Twin Cities campus area three times since Tuesday, now stretching the dangerous heat through 9 p.m. Friday.
Minnesota men's basketball has agreed to a home-and-home with Cincinnati, starting with a trip to the Bearcats on Nov. 9, 2026, per Gopher Sports.
Minnesota hosts Iowa on October 24, 2026, in the latest chapter of the Floyd of Rosedale rivalry, per the university's newly released 2026 football schedule.
A University of Minnesota study on invasive buckthorn finds that timing matters as much as effort — herbicide follow-ups and early native seeding together can push the shrub out for good.
From the mat to the golf course, Minnesota athletes and programs collected a wave of academic recognition this month, capped by 126 Gophers being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
Minnesota kicks off the 2026 football season hosting Eastern Illinois on September 3 at 7 p.m., the first game in a stretch of four straight home dates to start the year.
Minnesota and Mississippi State are on the schedule for September 12, 2026, an early-season Big Ten-SEC matchup buried in the second week of the Gophers' slate.
Minnesota and Akron will meet September 19, 2026 at 11 a.m., the third game of the Gophers' non-conference slate before Big Ten play heats up.
Minnesota's 2026 schedule includes a September 26 matchup with Washington, the fourth game of the season for the Gophers.
Minnesota's 2026 slate includes a home-not-yet-confirmed date with Michigan, part of a five-game stretch to open the season before Big Ten play thickens.
Minnesota's 2026 football schedule includes a October 10 date with Purdue, the middle game of a three-week stretch against Washington and Michigan.
Minnesota's 2026 Big Ten slate includes a date with Indiana on October 31, with kickoff time still to be announced.
Minnesota's 2026 football schedule includes a November 7 matchup with UCLA, tucked into the back stretch of Big Ten play.
Edwin Josue Toalombo spent more than three months in an El Paso detention center after ICE detained him and his father in January. Now he's trying to get back to his University of Minnesota classes by fall.
KSTP's Minnesota Live broadcast live from the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, putting one of the university's most scenic outposts in front of a statewide TV audience.
The winningest coach in Gophers baseball history will be honored in Chicago next January for his contributions to the sport.
Minnesota's 2026 Big Ten slate includes a November 14 date with Penn State, per the official Gophers football schedule.
Minnesota's 2026 football schedule pencils in a November 21 date with Northwestern, though it's still early days for details on this one.
Minnesota and Wisconsin will meet November 27, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. to wrap up the Gophers' regular season, per the Gopher Sports 2026 football schedule.
A 7-foot-2 German transfer center and a hometown four-star freshman are the newest names to learn on Dawn Staley... er, on Ben Johnson's roster heading into 2026-27.
The Gophers' all-time playmaker is heading overseas, signing with Logiman Broni of Italy's Serie A1 after wrapping up one of the most decorated careers in program history.
Cole Selvig, Isaac Morton and six other Minnesota players heard their names called as the 2026 MLB Draft wrapped up, extending the program's 39-year draft streak.
Season-ticket holders get first crack on July 9, with single-game tickets opening to the general public July 16 for a home slate that includes Michigan, Iowa and UCLA.
Minnesota's women's basketball team will face Kansas State at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls on Nov. 14, with public tickets hitting Ticketmaster on Wednesday.
Former Minnesota captain Abbey Murphy, current Gopher Chloe Primerano and Minnesota-Duluth's Caitlin Kraemer joined the Edmonton Oilers' prospect pool this week in a first for the franchise.
Incoming Gophers freshmen Katya Sander and Sloane Hartmetz have been invited to the 2026 USA Hockey Girls National U19 Training Camp, running July 13–16 in Oxford, Ohio.
Gophers opposite Carly Gilk earned a roster spot on the U.S. Women's U21 National Team, while teammate Jordan Taylor was named an alternate ahead of the Pan American Cup in Columbus, Ohio.
The Big Ten tabbed Gophers wrestler Andrew Sparks and women's hockey defender Nelli Laitinen as Minnesota's Outstanding Sportsmanship Award honorees, capping standout senior seasons for both.
A Minnesota Daily podcast talks to UMN lifeguards and a St. Paul aquatics director about the equity gap in swim lessons — and a free, targeted program working to close it.
University of Minnesota researchers say they've built the world's first synthetic cell capable of feeding, growing and completing a full life cycle — made entirely from non-living chemical components.
Four University of Minnesota students who make up the band Aphid released their first EP, "Sucker," on July 10.
A University of Minnesota researcher and a University of St. Thomas biologist are asking Twin Cities lake-goers to text in ratings of the water they're swimming in — then checking those ratings against actual phosphorus and E. coli readings.
A SAFE-U alert went out just after 10 a.m. Sunday after University of Minnesota Police reported a stabbing at 405 15th Ave. SE, steps from Identity Dinkytown Apartments.
After a two-year, state-funded investigation, University of Minnesota researchers say the buried concrete wall keeping St. Anthony Falls from collapsing shows little sign of imminent failure — but almost nobody has been watching it.
Elisia Cohen has left the top job at UMN's journalism school for a university-wide post, and undergraduate student services coordinator Sierra Siffer is moving on too — sending Hubbard on a national hunt for new leadership.
