House Passes Bill To Expand Gun Laws
The Minnesota House has passed a bill that expands the rights of people to defend themselves if they feel they are in imminent danger.
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The Minnesota House has passed a bill that expands the rights of people to defend themselves if they feel they are in imminent danger.
The owners of the Minnesota Vikings sent a letter to Gov. Mark Dayton and all 201 state lawmakers saying that the cost of road improvements near a new football stadium in suburban Ramsey County shouldn't prevent it getting approved this year.
The Minnesota Senate has passed several bills that make business-backed changes to the rights of plaintiffs who file civil lawsuits.
The Minnesota House and Senate are meeting for rare Saturday sessions as the clock winds down on their time at the Capitol.
Gov. Mark Dayton and several key Cabinet members met behind closed doors Friday with legislative backers of a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings, trying to figure out how to make the team's site choice in suburban Arden Hills viable in the waning days of the legislative session.
Top Republican lawmakers and Gov. Mark Dayton are close to starting end-of-session budget talks with a $5 billion deficit and 10 days to go in the legislative session.
Protests at the Wisconsin Capitol over public workers' collective bargaining rights cost more than $7.8 million for police, and damage to the Capitol will cost about $270,000 to repair, a state official said.
When she was 13, Amber Whitefeather met a smooth-talking man on the streets of Minneapolis who seemed to have it all: He wore a silk suit and snakeskin boots, drove a car with Jersey plates and, above all, seemed like he could be the protector she never had.
A bill altering boundaries for Minnesota's eight congressional districts to account for population shifts has passed the state House.
State Republican leaders want to cut transit funding by $109 million, a move that some said could be devastating to riders.
A new poll shows the majority of Minnesotans surveyed oppose amending the state Constitution to ban gay marriage.
A conservative group that has brought a string of potential presidential candidates to Iowa to lecture about the need to reduce government spending owes some of its past success to generous federal grants, which it has since rejected amid charges of hypocrisy.
Republican lawmakers negotiating a health and welfare spending package made a key budget concession Thursday to Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, deciding not to count on big savings from a state health care revamp that would need federal approval.
A key Senate panel declined to recommend Gov. Mark Dayton's pick to head the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Thursday, in the first signal that the Republican-led Senate could reject a member of the Democratic governor's cabinet.
Mayors and superintendents from three of Minnesota's largest school districts are criticizing a Republican-sponsored education bill moving through the Legislature.
