ST. PAUL - Rural Republican Minnesota House members wanted to make the point that Democrats often ignore farmers.The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party certainly did not ignore the group that is little more than a week old. A DFL lawyer sent a cease a...
APPLETON, Minn. - There are now price tags for the state of Minnesota to either purchase, upgrade and operate the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, or to lease it.A newly released architectural assessment of the facility in far west-cent...
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - Tim Miller is fighting to win the Republican endorsement to take on longtime Democrat Collin Peterson for a seat in the U.S. House.He hopes to use his experience as a small business owner, Army veteran and state representat...
"Do you plan to vote against Paul D. Ryan continuing his speakership?" It was an easy-sounding question, asked at the end of a friendly Republican candidate forum at Minnesota's state fair. To the pleasant surprise of Democrats, four of five Repu...
APPLETON - Legislation calling on the state to purchase or lease-to-own the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton did not make it through the 2017 session, but the state is now obligated to take a serious look at the possibility of utilizing ...
PAUL -- Tim Miller says he beat the odds before and he can do it again as he runs for the U.S. House seat long held by Collin Peterson.Miller said he is different from a string of Republicans that Democrat Peterson has beat every two years since ...
ST. PAUL-Reworked legislation to place state inmates in a west-central Minnesota prison is advancing in the Legislature, but Gov. Mark Dayton remains strongly opposed to it.A House committee heard arguments on both sides of the issue Tuesday, Mar...
ST. PAUL-Advocates for the construction of two new state-run veterans homes in greater Minnesota say they may have finally gained legislative footing in a decade-long pursuit of state funding.The House Veterans Affairs Division unanimously approv...
ST. PAUL-There is one easy prediction in Minnesota politics: The 2018 governor's race will be crowded.Nearly 20 people have said they are running, say they are considering running or at least have not rejected the notion. And it looks like both m...
ST. PAUL -- Nearly two years into a Minnesota law requiring plant buffers between cropland and water, some farmers remain furious. They say the 2015 buffer law violates the U.S. Constitution provision saying no "private property (can) be taken fo...
RED WING, Minn. -- Lisa Bayley laughs, halfheartedly, when talking about a political flyer showing her shoveling money into an incinerator. Then "there is one of me with a bunch of cows wandering around and it says that Lisa Bayley must think we ...
