Elk population growth in Minnesota's three wild herds has stagnated and researchers aren't sure why. An upcoming state Department of Natural Resources research project could help answer that question.

Payments are expected to reach farmers by February of next year. Details on how payouts will be calculated are set to be announced by the end of December.

Authorities are a searching for a shooter who killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus. Officers were hunting through campus buildings and sifting through trash cans more than three hours after the shooting erupted.

Israel says it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory's south. Hamas in a statement Saturday did not confirm the death of Raed Saad.

Minnesota households face rising winter heating costs as natural gas and electricity prices climb and colder-than-average temperatures settle in.

Eyewitnesses said federal agents surrounded a construction site in Chanhassen on Saturday morning, trapping two workers on the roof. A video on social media shows one worker being brought down and taken into an ambulance.

President Donald Trump says "there will be very serious retaliation" after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.

Maine's loons are on the mend, filling more of the lakes and ponds in the state with their haunting calls. Maine is home to a few thousand of the large waterbirds, and conservationists say efforts to protect them from threats have helped grow the population.

The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week. Now it's the House's turn. Speaker Mike Johnson late Friday released a package of proposal to address growing health care costs.

Was Judge Hannah Dugan trying to obstruct a proceeding or trying to run her courtroom when ICE agents came to arrest an undocumented immigrant? A federal jury will decide

Americans are feeling the strain already with less than three weeks to go until the expiration of COVID-era tax credits that have helped many people pay for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.