There is a budget battle brewing when the Minnesota Legislature returns to the state capitol on Monday after a week-long ...

Fierce and unpredictable fights are happening at the Capitol over K-12 money. Part of the challenge is anticipating federal ...

Minnesota lawmakers will return to Saint Paul next week after their week-long Easter/Passover break. The return to the state ...

Betty McCollum and local lawmakers. Attendees must RSVP for location. Leader Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, talks about power ...

Minnesota’s House of Representatives released its budget targets over the weekend, joining the Governor and the Minnesota Senate DFL in sharing an outlook for the upcoming state budget.

Democrats in the Legislature introduced proposals to assist federal workers targeted by spending cuts in the Trump ...

GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth, left, and House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman must work together to craft a budget in the evenly split chamber. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

While he is entitled to due process, we must hold legislators to a higher standard,” state House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Majority Leader Harry Niska said in a joint statement, per the Minnesota ...

MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst talks with Speaker of the Minnesota House Lisa Demuth and House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman in front of a studio audience at the UBS Forum in St. Paul.

Minnesota Senate Democrats, joint House and Gov. Tim Walz all target health budget, while House rules out education cuts. Walz tax changes would reduce sales tax rate but expand taxable services.

Police in the Twin Cities say a Grand Rapids man, who is a state senator, has been arrested for allegedly trying to solicit sex from a minor.