We've got jobs and a lower cost of living than many of the hot places-to-be, such as San Francisco, and those facts are luring thousands of college grads.

An annual convention, which runs during the next five weeks, brings thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses back to Rochester each year. The event gives the city an estimated $7 million boost.

One of the highlights of summer in the Northland occurs when music fans flock to the Duluth lake shore for the Bayfront Blues Festival. When this year's version rolls around at the end of next week, the three-day event will likely draw 50,000 or maybe even 60,000 people. But when the inaugural festival was held on this date in 1989 attendance was more modest. How many people were at that first festival? A. 50 B. 600 C. 1,000 Click on the headline above for the answer ...

King Harald V followed his father's footsteps as he and Queen Sonja participated in a rededication ceremony for Enger Tower.

The Public Utilities Commission dealt a setback to a planned wind farm near Red Wing. Commissioners decided the plan does not do enough to protect eagles and other birds that could be killed by its 50 turbines. The decision will at least delay the project and could kill it.

A privately funded group continues work on a fast-track plan to stop invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The group hopes to release its plan in January. The Detroit Free Press reports one of the options includes a series of barriers in the Illinois River to stop the destructive species from traveling from the Mississippi River through Chicago to Lake Michigan. Minnesota is part of a suit to force federal officials to speed up the effort to halt the fish before they spread further.

Hundreds of people in Gorilla suits were spotted running through the streets of Mankato over the weekend. Yes, they were doing it for a good cause...