Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called a special election to fill the seat formerly held by Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, who authorities say was assassinated at her Twin Cities ...

Funeral of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, June 28, 10:30am.

Voters now know when they'll head to the polls to cast their ballots in a special election to fill a seat left vacant following the assassination of Melissa Hortman last month.

Brooklyn Park City Council member Christian Eriksen announced his candidacy for the Minnesota House seat formerly held by the late Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman via press release and a website.

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was taken from us by the kind of political violence that is becoming all too common — violence that doesn’t just hurt families, but threatens the integrity of ...

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was taken from us by the kind of political violence that is becoming all too common — violence that doesn’t just hurt families, but threatens the integrity of our ...

Like everyone who works around the state Capitol, I was shocked when I learned of the assassination of Melissa Hortman. The intimate, horrifying violence of the act, combined with the loss of such ...

Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark committed so much of their lives to the Minnesotan endeavor of creating a better world for all. I don’t know that we are living up to that aspiration right now, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were killed in what authorities are calling an assassination, were honored with a private funeral at ...

Mourners view the caskets of Melissa and Mark Horman as they enter the Basilica of St. Mary before funeral services for Mark and Melissa Hortman in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, June 28, 2025.