On the eve of the first special legislative session of the year, leaders in the Minnesota Senate, House and Governor’s Office continue to meet behind closed doors as they try to pass a number of budget bills before July 1 ...
Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope, is spending his first term at the Minnesota Capitol getting right into one of the biggest issues of the past two years: more police accountability ...
Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders are just 24 days from a state government shutdown and have missed all of their constitutional and self-imposed deadlines for passing budget bills ...
Governor Tim Walz says he's "super optimistic" the Minnesota Legislature can complete a quick special session by next week or at least before June 30 ...
Political analyst Steven Schier says lawmakers face a more serious deadline to avoid a special session that in other recent years because of a 2017 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that says courts can no longer order state funding to continue ...
In a one-on-one interview Friday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he's confident Chauvin will be sentenced to more than the sentencing guidelines usually call for in a first offense case ...
With little news coming out of budget talks four weeks before Minnesota's state government could shut down, lawmakers and the governor skirmished over emergency powers on Wednesday...
After a brief pause, construction will resume this week on the Enbridge Line 3 replacement oil pipeline in northern Minnesota despite continued legal challenges and protests ...
On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, local activists called for more police accountability, the Floyd family met with President Joe Biden — and the Minnesota Senate Majority Leader called for more police on the streets of Minneapolis ...
Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says policy difference regarding police reform and the governor's emergency powers are the biggest obstacles to an agreement ....
Eden Prairie-based Starkey Hearing Technologies is likely to give out more than 100 sets of free hearing aids this year as part of an initiative to help people who suffered economically or couldn't access hearing health care during the pandemic ...
As Minnesota nears the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, lawmakers at the State Capitol are again considering changes to how police interact with the public ...
Even though it was a highly contentious debate last year during a special session, the two key lawmakers seeking compromise on the issue of police accountability are optimistic about an agreement this year ...
There's no longer any question about whether there will be a special session of the Minnesota Legislature; the only questions that remain are when it will happen and what kind of budget deal it will take to get there ...
The final days of the 2021 legislative session seem to be sputtering to a close without a budget deal — one of the most pressing issues to tackle this year ...
The deadline to reach an agreement, pass them off the House and Senate floors and send them to the governor is midnight Monday. There's close to zero chance of that happening ...
An exclusive KSTP/SurveyUSA poll of 750 people shows that about half (333 people) aren’t yet vaccinated. Of those, only 14% who identify as Republicans say they plan to get a shot ...
There are many people who remain hesitant to get the vaccine for various reasons, and most of them tend to be Republicans, according to a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll ...
This week on “At Issue,” Omar, a Democrat from the 5th Congressional District, explains her reasoning behind a proposal that would create a new federal agency to investigate police. She says it’s “proactive" ...
The biennial battle over the budget at the Minnesota State Capitol will heat up over the next 19 days as lawmakers try to beat the clock by the May 17 session deadline ...
