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Jay Lawrence is a Redwood Falls High School graduate who served with the Minnesota National Guard's 34th Military Infantry Division in Iraq. For the past three and a half years he's worked in Kabul as a civilian journalist with U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes.
As the Afghan government falls to the Taliban, Reg Chapman gets perspective from a veteran who proudly served in Afghanistan.
More Minnesota Republicans are calling for state party chair Jennifer Carnahan to step down due to her ties to GOP donor and strategist Anton "Tony" Lazzaro, who was indicted Thursday on federal sex trafficking charges.
The newly elected chair of University of St. Thomas' College Republicans was arrested in Florida on sex trafficking charges, according to FBI Minneapolis.
A judge has ruled that part of a ballot question that will soon be before Minneapolis voters on the future of the city's police department must be rewritten.
Minnesota GOP party leader Sen. Robert Chamberlain issued a statement calling for Rep. Jennifer Carnahan to resign after her relationship with GOP donor and alleged sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro came to light Friday.
The executive committee of the Minnesota GOP will have an emergency meeting Friday night in wake of the allegations that a Republican donor "deeply involved" in party politics illegally trafficked minors for sex.
Brooklyn Park mayoral candidate Hollies Winston announced a vote recount after losing the election by a "razor-thin margin".
Mayor Jacob Frey's veto of a proposed charter amendment on rent stabilization will stand, after the Minneapolis City Council failed to override it on Friday.
Here are some highlights from the census data on how Minnesota has changed from 2010 to 2020.
Lawmakers spent nearly seven hours Wednesday debating and listening to testimony on bills that would ban Wisconsin schools from teaching ideas linked to critical race theory.
After polls closed Tuesday in Minnesota's sixth largest city, the results showed city council member Lisa Jacobson capturing 3,415 votes, defeating Hollies Winston who won 3,414 votes.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, who served more than 24 years in a southwestern Wisconsin district that former President Donald Trump carried in 2020, announced Tuesday that he won't seek reelection next year.
Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott declared a local health emergency Monday effective immediately.
Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday held a ceremonial bill signing for the Veterans Restorative Justice Act, a bipartisan bill which aims to provide veterans caught in the criminal justice system with social services rather than jail time.
