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The transportation budget, which funds road projects, state patrol and more, is among several pieces of the $52 billion total in state spending that is hanging over the legislature in the final days of the fiscal year.
President Joe Biden plans to travel to southwestern Wisconsin next week to discuss agriculture and rural economies, the White House announced Tuesday.
A former senior advisor to President Joe Biden's COVID response team, Andy Slavitt is out with a new book called "Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response."
The Minnesota state Senate unanimously passed the biennial higher education budget Monday targeting specific student needs.
The Minnesota Legislature has 10 days to get all 15 budget bills done or the state government will shut down.
Two intersections in Minneapolis that have been the center of protests and gatherings are back open to traffic Sunday.
Each day that comes and goes without bills passing means one step closer to a fate the legislature hopes to avoid: a government shutdown.
At the DFL endorsing convention, newcomer and progressive activist Sheila Nezhad got 53% of delegates' support, while Jacob Frey got 40%.
The Minnesota House launched into a long, contentious debate Thursday as it held its first votes on big budget bills that lawmakers were unable to pass before time ran out on the year's regular session last month.
The Minneapolis DFL announced that no candidate for mayor got to the 60% threshold necessary to get the DFL endorsement.
Entertainment venues have felt left in the dark about when they would see aid that was approved six months ago by Congress.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly on Wednesday passed bills banning transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports — measures taken up in the middle of Pride month and all but certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The Wisconsin Assembly was scheduled Wednesday to send a package of police reform bills to Gov. Tony Evers, including a measure banning police use of chokeholds except in life-threatening situations or in self defense.
A group representing landlords is suing Gov. Tim Walz to end the state eviction moratorium first put in place when the pandemic began, arguing the ban is unconstitutional and should no longer be enforced.
Minneapolis is struggling to deal with an intersection that threatens to become the next 38th and Chicago.
