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Gov. Scott Walker is proposing eliminating the public service mission of the University of Wisconsin, known as the "Wisconsin Idea," replacing it with the charge to meet the state's workforce needs. The wording change was included in Walker's budget released Tuesday.
A new plaque at Minneapolis City Hall commemorates the state's first legal same-sex marriages performed there in 2013. Sixty-seven couples were married August 1st of that year after Minnesota became the 12th state in the nation to recognize same-sex unions.
Democrats in the Minnesota Senate are expanding their focus on education. They want to increase school funding for counselors and programs that let high school students earn college credit.
A freshman lawmaker from Fargo is pushing for the legalization of medicinal marijuana in North Dakota.
Debt that lingered from Republican Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign is now resolved. A recently filed federal campaign report shows that the former Minnesota congresswoman paid off remaining bills from that unsuccessful White House bid.
Minnesota's campaign for governor was a bargain compared to the spending in the same race four years earlier. Final figures from the 2014 campaign were published Tuesday.
New campaign reports are about to shed more light on the price of political power. Reports being made public Tuesday contain details on financial activity for candidates, parties and political groups involved in last year's campaigns for Minnesota offices.
The Minnesota Zoo is asking the legislature for help with a million dollar budget deficit. Zoo officials said they may otherwise be facing some difficult decisions to make it up, including the possibility of closing some exhibits.
As Minnesota's debate over police body-camera footage revs up, Gov. Mark Dayton says the data captured "needs to be confined and carefully limited."
Lt. Gov. Tina Smith and Katie Sieben, commissioner of Minnesota's economic development department, held a teleconference Monday to talk about the state's new broadband Internet expansion program.
President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2016 seeks a $50 million cut in a multi-year program to clean up the Great Lakes. The president's spending plan released Monday requests $250 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, down from $300 million appropriated for this year.
The first state grants in a new broadband Internet expansion program will bolster 17 projects in Minnesota.
Minnesota lawmakers want to address a looming shortage of health care professionals.
A freshman lawmaker from Fargo is pushing for the legalization of medicinal marijuana in North Dakota.
Jody Biever and other members of her family have been attending the Big Stone City school for decades, so the possible loss of state funding has rallied them and other members of the community. "We all kind of band together when something goes wrong," she said.
