Afterward, I stopped for a beer at Station 280, an odd border bar in the no-man’s-land near the obsolete border freeway, where there are 2-for-1’s all day and digested my journey.

(This is a revised version of the story). Area residents who jokingly refer to family members in Iowa as “their southern relatives” should take note of a proposal introduced during ...

Axios Visuals Gov. Tim Walz is reminding Canadian travelers the state is open for business amid a sharp drop in visitors from north of the border. The big picture: Canadians have been avoiding the U.S ...

Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time, John Garrard and Ekaterina Mikhailova (eds). Routledge Global Urban Studies Series, London and New York 2019 ISBN 978-1-138 ...

Twin Cities set record high of 96, leaving sweaty multitudes looking for ways to play it cool and safe. ... Minnesota border communities celebrate impending return of Canadian visitors.

What's the coolest thing made in Minnesota? For the second year, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has opened nominations to ...

Current head-counting has the Minnesota population at 5.7 million and Wisconsin at 5.9 million. The major difference is that 3.65 million of Minnesotans are concentrated in the Twin Cities metro area.

Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are different from those in the countries’ interior. San Diego economist James Gerber looks at the reasons why in his new book, “Border Economies: Cities Bridging ...