Education Commissioner Willie Jett asked the House Education Finance Committee an important question Tuesday. “How do we ...

Two months out from the tax filing deadline, the Minnesota Department of Revenue is already beginning to see a stream of return filings. Around 14 percent of Minnesotans have filed so far. And more ...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is seeking a higher office. After Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith announced that she will not be ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and a failed 2024 candidate have both announced bids for a 2026 congressional seat ...

Smith is the second Democratic senator to announce their retirements ahead of the midterms in 2026, when the party wants to contend for the majority but faces obstacles.

As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell developed a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly using procedural tactics to ...

Photo: Alamy With 22 months until the midterm elections, Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., a swing-state incumbent, has declined to run for a second term, marking another open seat that Democrats must defend.

On a blustery February 6, 2025, Governor Tim Walz announced $6.1 million in grants to expand access to childcareacrossthestate.The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) ...

Minnesota has its first open-seat Senate race since 2006. Many candidates are giving it a look and both parties say they’re ...

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Tina Smith's decision not to seek reelection is setting off a scramble by potential candidates in both major political parties to fill the seat ...

Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, the highest-ranking Native American woman in state government and a citizen of ...

Tina Smith’s seat, which has been reliably Democratic, was moved to ‘battleground’ by an analyst, setting up a competitive ...