Melissa Hortman was the Minnesota House's top Democrat and as House speaker helped shepherd a package of liberal initiatives ...

The Minnesota Legislature passed the final bills comprising the state’s two-year, $66 billion budget — an 8% decrease from ...

Budget delays have been common across the country amid lousy economic forecasts, federal uncertainty and other factors.

Melissa Hortman's power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Minnesota Legislature was a far cry ...

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman, fatally shot in a targeted attack, recently made headlines as the only House ...

In the end, Minnesota lawmakers managed to pass a $66 billion two-year budget through the most closely divided Legislature in ...

Adults living in the U.S. illegally will be excluded from a state-run health care program under a budget deal that the ...

Melissa Hortman, once a teenager making chili cheese burritos and later a powerful Democratic leader in Minnesota's deeply divided Legislature, is being remembered for her compassion, resilience, and ...

BLAINE, Minnesota (Reuters) -From the pulpit on Sunday, Father Joe Whalen exhorted his parishioners to avoid the kind of ...

Now off to the governor’s desk, the roughly 15 budget bills will allow the state to avert a July 1st government shutdown.

Cities and counties avoided the most serious cuts but still have to fill funding gaps and plan for federal uncertainty.

Minnesota lawmakers have agreed on a state budget bill, averting a shutdown that would lead to a layoff of government workers ...