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The Legislature approved the remaining pieces of the next state budget overnight Tuesday during a special session that lasted ...
State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.
Police officers converged on an area where investigators said they found a vehicle belonging to the suspect in the shootings ...
The bonding bill’s impact on the county will come more through statewide initiatives, such as the $55 million investment in ...
In the end, Minnesota lawmakers managed to pass a $66 billion two-year budget through the most closely divided Legislature in ...
Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was more than just the state House’s top Democrat, according to those who knew her. ...
Minnesota Legislature House Speaker Melissa Hortman (left) is pictured on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, at Saint Paul, Minn.
Now off to the governor’s desk, the roughly 15 budget bills will allow the state to avert a July 1st government shutdown.
Minnesota lawmakers passed a $700 million bonding bill to address infrastructure projects, which also includes a grant ...
Minnesota legislators voiced ambivalence and frustration with spending bills as the 2025 session finally wrapped.
While a number of special sessions were held during the COVID pandemic, it’s the first to deal with an unfinished state ...
Melissa Hortman - the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday - was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as ...