President Joe Biden visited Minneapolis Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to former Vice President Walter Mondale.

Time is slipping away at the Minnesota Capitol, with an adjournment deadline falling three weeks from Monday.

Gov. Tim Walz will be back in the Minnesota House chamber on Sunday to deliver his annual State of the State Address, a purposeful return to the Capitol where he’s spent relatively little time the past two years.

The Capitol Rotunda was filled with people Thursday to kick off an advocacy day of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. The rally that began with a Buddhist blessing.

Jockeying among Republican candidates aiming for the governor’s office remains intense as the universe of voters they need to persuade has narrowed considerably.

When you look around, it would appear that many people think the pandemic is over. Hospitalizations and deaths in Minnesota are at some of their lowest levels of the pandemic. But there’s been a fast rise in cases on the East Coast.

The COVID-19 load in Twin Cities wastewater continues to trend up from its recent low in mid-March, but the increase is slow. The Metropolitan Council is reporting a 7 day rolling average of 39 million copies per person per day as of April 4, up from roughly 20 million three weeks earlier. R…

From the outside, the gray building just off Highway 71 in Willmar isn’t very imposing.

Minnesota’s pension fund holdings in investments with ties to Russia and Belarus are closer to being unloaded after a unanimous vote Tuesday by the state Senate.

At her job, Mayla Yang toggles between Hmong and English while talking on the phone.

The Minnesota Zoo says its 12-year-old male Amur tiger named Putin died Wednesday, after going into cardiac failure as veterinary staff were conducting what they called a routine preventative health exam.

A man who was partially blinded during the George Floyd protests in 2020 said a Minneapolis police officer deliberately fired a 40mm projectile at his face.

Until now, paid family and medical leave proposals at the state Capitol had been a largely one-sided affair. Democrats have pushed unsuccessfully for years to create a government program that would guarantee paid time off to bond with a child or care for a sick family member.

There’s still no agreement on replenishing the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund and repaying money owed to the federal government.

Minnesota business leaders, many lawmakers and the state agency that oversees unemployment benefits have had March 15 circled on the calendar. That’s when they had hoped to have resolved a $1.3 billion debt in the state’s unemployment trust fund and refill it to a level where automatic tax i…

Minnesota lawmakers found themselves swimming in surplus money Monday, as finance officials cautioned that events in Ukraine add uncertainty to a new forecast.

Minnesota is dealing with something new in the COVID-19 pandemic: good news.

Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evidence of a pandemic surge in retreat, with fewer than 600 patients in the hospital now and new daily cases trending at a six-month low.

The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.

The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.