For the first time, St. Paul will be led by a Hmong woman. Kaohly Her defeated incumbent Melvin Carter Tuesday night to become the next mayor. That win is something Hmong community groups are ...

The Twin Cities is home to the largest urban Hmong population in the country. The Hmong were drawn to Minnesota by job opportunities, access to welfare and public housing, social services and the ...

As co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association in Minnesota, Janssen Hang has met Gov. Tim Walz several times. It’s usually been on farmland with Walz in his trademark ...

For Choua Lor, a 2nd grade teacher at Vang Pao Elementary in Fresno, Calif., teaching is a calling. But working in the school’s Hmong dual-language immersion program is what she calls her life’s ...