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Dozens of U.S. House members urged federal regulators Tuesday to retain legal protections for gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states, saying the resilient predator could continue expanding its range if humans don't get in the way.
Democratic lawmakers who lead House transportation panels are seeking a menu of transportation tax and fee hikes including a five-cent increase in the state gas tax.
The Minnesota has passed a bill establishing Minnesota's health insurance exchange, with its sponsor calling it the most substantial changes to state healthcare policy in 50 years.
Fearing that broader restrictions on guns won't pass, top Minnesota lawmakers on Monday tacked toward new legislation that avoids expanding background checks as their best bet to tighten the state's gun laws.
State lawmakers are in the midst of a heated debate Monday night that could affect a million Minnesotans. It's the centerpiece of the new federal health care law that would create an online system to buy health care insurance.
Top Minnesota lawmakers are tacking toward new gun legislation that wouldn't impose universal background checks for gun purchases.
Theater employees in Minnesota are pushing back against a call to ban smoking on stage.
A proposal to legalize marijuana for medical use likely is dead for this session. A Senate subcommittee approved the bill Monday, but the panel's chairman says the proposal likely won't go further.
Minnesota is headed toward a significant milestone in which more of its residents are senior citizens than school-aged.
With added focus on the early childhood development, some Minnesota lawmakers think issues involved with that stage of life deserve its own state agency.
Minnesota lawmakers are getting ready to vote on the bill that will create the state's version of a health insurance exchange, a way for uninsured people to obtain health coverage that's a centerpiece of the Obama administration's health care overhaul.
Three days into the sequester and there are signs that many Americans are not that concerned.
Minnesota Sheriffs issued more than 30,000 gun permits last year -- that's 10,000 more than the year before.
Minnesota high school coaches could soon have a bit more job protection.
Minnesotans could suffer from those budget cuts too. Some over time, and some right away.
