Thao is a full-time park naturalist for the Department of Natural Resources and is based at Fort Snelling State Park, offering nature education programs on a variety of subjects.

Kao Thao has always connected with the outdoors. As a young boy growing up in Laos, he said he vividly remembers a family garden filled with vegetables. Thao also recalled fleeing his birthplace ...

Kao Thao, an interpretive naturalist, poses for a portrait for the Change Makers series at Fort Snelling State Park on April 22 in St. Paul. This year marks 50 years of Hmong refugee resettlement ...

Hearings at the Fort Snelling Immigration Court are filled with jailed men worried about how their wives and children will ...

Rachael Hood, Senior Editor Established in the early 19th century as a frontier outpost, Fort Snelling is the oldest structure in Minnesota. Its perch over the converging point of the Mississippi ...

William O’Brien State Park in northern Washington County recently underwent a $5.25 million renovation to make the park’s day use area, campground and park office more accessible to people with ...

A Minnesota State University Mankato international student is out of jail on bond after a federal judge ordered authorities ...

The Star Tribune sat in on the majority of the case hearings for detainees at Fort Snelling Immigration Court since late ...

The Minnesota Commanders’ Task Force — a collaboration of The American Legion, AMVETS, DAV, JWV, Marine Corps League, MOPH, PVA and VFW — calls on Minnesota state lawmakers to pass the anti-fraud ...