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Minnesota lobbyists spent $70 million last year to influence state decision makers, according to a new report from the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. And so far in 2015, that trend is not slowing down.
A Minneapolis area labor leader has been elected the next president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. The Minnesota AFL-CIO General Board on Tuesday elected Bill McCarthy to head the state labor federation.
Minnesota's full congressional delegation has written a letter to get Twins great Harmon Killebrew immortalized on a postage stamp. The late Killebrew's wife and the Minnesota Twins are asking for fans to send in letters of support.
The Republican Party of Minnesota says it's chipping away at a pile of debt that still exceeds $1 million. The party announced Tuesday that it will report holding $1.25 million in debt halfway through 2015.
Minnesota Republicans are calling for an end to Minnesota's online health care exchange. Republican lawmakers met at the State Capitol on Monday to hold a news conference after 180,000 Minnesotans on MnSure had their renewals delayed last week.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker declared his candidacy for president on Monday, casting himself as a "fighter" who muscled through an aggressive conservative agenda in a state that typically supports Democrats.
Two Minnesota lawmakers are now the longest-serving members of the House of Representatives. Reps. Phyllis Kahn and Lyndon Carlson were sworn into office in January 1973.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker is set to sign the state budget at a valve manufacturing company in Waukesha.
State officials released a report Friday showing revenue collections were up nearly 3 percent above projections for the fiscal year ending in June.
We learned Thursday that Major League Soccer may be coming to St. Paul rather than Minneapolis. This morning, Mayor Chris Coleman announced he's invited the MLS president to visit St. Paul and check out some land where a new soccer stadium could be built.
The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that would ban non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers in Minnesota are looking to ban gun-shaped cell phone cases.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is packing 'em in: 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin. More than 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Another 7,500 this week in Portland, Maine.
Community members in northeast Minneapolis are calling for increased rail safety. Their fight falls on the second anniversary of the oil train disaster in Canada that killed 47 people.
The massive renovation of the Minnesota Capitol has opened a new discussion topic: How much and what kind of art to put on the walls and in building corridors when the fix-up is complete.
