By HPIS Staff
Although the flurry of activity in advance of Thursday’s first committee deadline has paused – and the MNLARS debate may temporarily return to a slow simmer – another self-impos...
By Ricky Campbell
With an estimated 6,000 cemeteries, recorded and unrecorded, throughout Minnesota, Rep. Bob Dettmer (R-Forest Lake) believes it’s time to figure out how to support, maintain and improve neglected burial areas.
By Rachel Kats
With a goal to improve transparency and clarity, Minnesota could be changing the way it evaluates schools and school district performance.
By Jonathan Avise
Gov. Dayton signs legislation that would appropriate $10 million for more MNLARS fixes and strict oversight of the project’s progress.
By Rachel Kats
As the relentless wave of school violence continues, lawmakers continue to propose a range of options to help school districts stop it.
Sponsored by Rep. Jenifer Loon (R-Ede...
By Mike Cook
A close committee vote means certain Minnesotans still can’t cast a ballot.
Under current law, a person convicted of a felony cannot vote while behind bars or out on probati...
By Zach Kayser
Autopsies for a sizeable portion of the state’s population could be performed at a new Hennepin County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office.
By Jonathan Mohr
A bill would make a number of policy and technical changes to statutes, including a revision that would expand access to Beginning Farmer Tax Credits to spouses and family members of farmers.
By Zach Kayser
Tobacco lawsuit settlement money may keep going toward statewide smoking cessation.
The House Health and Human Services Reform Committee approved HF3291, as amended, Thursda...
By Michael Strasburg
Tragedy struck Chisago Lake in January when an 8-year-old boy ice fishing with his family was struck and killed by a drunk snowmobiler.
By Ricky Campbell
Employers would be barred from accessing workers’ personal social media accounts under a bill making its way through the Legislature.
By Jonathan Avise
The conference committee on SF3133 reached a compromise that would appropriate $9.65 million in Fiscal Year 2018 to the Department of Public Safety to continue work on improving the glitch-ridden computer system.
By Jonathan Avise
The bill would change the size and makeup of the regional planning body, alter how the agency’s finances are monitored by the state, and change the way it can pay for capital maintenance costs.