64 high school teams gathered in Duluth to see whose robots were the best at shooting a basketball and balancing on a wobbly bridge. Teams from St. Peter, Prior Lake, and Milwaukee will move on to a national competition.
Hundreds of private homes are at-risk in northern St. Louis County.
The incident sent the Minnesota Capitol into a brief lockdown.
Sven Sundgaard is providing an update after Thursday's flash hail storm.
Party leader says candidate didn't know the imagery perpetuated an antisemitic trope.
In addition to possible tornadoes, there is a threat for damaging winds and very large hail.
Prices continue to rise in the metro, but there are signs of buyer fatigue.
The blast rocked the Wisconsin town just before 7:45 a.m.
The 49-year-old was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The molar found in a remote cave is believed to have belonged to a Denisovan girl who lived 164,000-130,000 years ago.
The custom-designed home is on the market for $500K
Authorities alleged Mohamed Selim attempted to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex on Tuesday.
The organization is looking for 1,000 volunteers to help with the effort in the metro.
From surgical robots to farming automation to unmanned aircraft, robotics is spreading across the Midwest. And some technologists think Minnesota is poised to become the industry's regional hub. A conference at the U of M this week will look at how to make that happen.
The Maryland Avenue Bridge over Interstate 35E just north of downtown St. Paul is coming down beginning July 13. The street will be closed until early or mid-September, when it reopens with a new bridge in place. Workers are building the new bridge at a nearby site, and in what might signal the future of bridge construction, a giant robotic conveyor belt will roll the span into place during a 12-hour window over two weekends in August.
With the help of a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists and biologists from the U have developed robotic boats -- called Carp Trackers -- that can locate and follow carp, allowing officials to net and remove the fish from lakes and rivers.
The Minnesota State High School League is in the beginning discussion phases of a potential change to class 4A boys and girls basketball tournaments. The idea is to create an NCAA style 64-team tournament, based on competitive balance rather than geographic location.
Scientists from around the world are in St. Paul this week for the annual Robotics and Automation Conference, where everything from golf course-mowing machines to cancer-seeking micro-cameras are on display. The conference is not open to the public, but WCCO-TV got a peek.
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