The Minnesota Senate will discuss a bill on Monday that, if passed, would ban cell phones for students in elementary and ...

Senate Democrats outlined their priorities for the legislative session, now in its second month, and DFL Leader Erin Murphy ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is nominating former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach and university president Jim Tressel as the state's next lieutenant governor. The Republican governor announced the pick ...

Rep. Lisa Demuth became Minnesota’s first Black female House Speaker, sworn in by the state's first Black Senate President, ...

Democrats can’t ignore the Americans’ disillusionment with our political institutions. They need to offer a plausible and ...

From the office of Minnesota Sen. Julianne Ortman, who represents St. Lawrence Township in the state Senate and serves as lead Republican on the tax committee and assistant minority leader: Many ...

We are finishing up week four of the 2025 legislative session. The big news is that House Democrats have ended their boycott ...

Local representatives named health care, transportation, tax reform and education as priorities going into the new legislative biennium Tuesday. “I’m sincerely optimistic that we’re ...

Friends and neighbors, We are finishing up week four of the 2025 legislative session. The big news is that House Democrats have ended their boycott and will return to work. An agreement was finalized ...

Between the chaos that unfolded this week, Minnesota lawmakers and the executive branch looked at a myriad of issues ...

A budget proposed by Gov. Tim Walz, released in January, would eliminate nonpublic pupil aid and transportation aid that ...