Kirsten Bahr is a physical science technician for the National Park Service and the chair of the Salt Lake Grotto club.

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After holding off a second-half surge by Shakopee, Minnetonka improved to 5-0 with a 21-13 victory Friday in a battle of unbeaten Class 6A powers before a homecoming crowd of 8,145. The Skippers ...

MINNETONKA, Minn. — Minnetonka High School is under lockdown on Tuesday morning while police investigate reports of a suspicious person. Police say there is a large police presence at the school ...

Minnetonka Sparklers Piper Breczinski (left to right), Violet Ryan and Ava Zutz cheer during a football game on Sept. 27. (Ayrton Breckenridge/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

MINNETONKA, Minn. — Two men accused of violently carjacking a family in Minnetonka last summer have submitted plea deals to the court. The two men are accused of taking part in the violent ...

A situation unfolding Tuesday morning at Minnetonka High School has since been resolved, a city spokesperson confirmed. There was a heavy police presence at the school as law enforcement ...

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“All that has dark sounds has duende” the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca once wrote, many years before Nick Cave quoted him in his 1999 essay The Secret Life Of The Love Song, which probed the ...

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In the 1980s, researchers excavating a cave in the Judean Desert, in Israel, uncovered a seed that was subsequently dated to sometime between 993 and 1202 AD, making it approximately 1,000 years old.

What it tells us about the past: Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not the dry, sandy landscape we know it as today — it was a lush, green oasis. In fact, the sandstone-rich Gilf ...