MINNEAPOLIS — News item: Shooting of four children, ages 11 to 13, at 1 a.m. in a stolen car raises familiar alarm in Minneapolis. Police recover 30 shell casings from what they say was a fully automatic weapon.

Nothing about the events described above should be considered normal, Thurman Tucker says. Not now or ever.

Kids who are barely in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Montana company that sells digital navigation apps to hunters, off-roaders and backcountry hikers has turned to Minnesota anglers to help develop apps for both trout streams and freshwater lakes.

OnX Maps, best known for its GPS-driven hunting app, acquired Twin Cities-based TroutRoutes this year at about the same time it ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The other day Bob Hautman turned on one light, then another, curious whether the change in luminescence affected the mien, or appearance, of the ducks he was painting.

This was at the farm-turned-wildlife mecca west of the Twin Cities that Hautman shares with his wife, the artist Dodie Logue, and Hautman was putting the ...Read more