By Zach Kayser
The initiative contained in a bill from Rep. Dave Baker (R-Willmar) would have charged prescription opioid manufacturers to help fund efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
By Ricky Campbell
Lawmakers heard a bipartisan-supported bill Thursday designed to give the public access to video, audio and other recordings of government employees previously deemed private, b...
By Ricky Campbell
HF2309 would further clarify that the court must unseal location-tracking warrants for electronic devices pinging cell phones and keep them separate from traditional warrants.
By Jonathan Avise
Critics of the 50-year-old planning agency say it has become ‘a monster’; others defend the agency’s role while saying some change is needed.
By Mike Cook
HF2932 would expand the criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation crimes to include when someone negligently operates a motor vehicle while operating a cell phone.
By Rachel Kats
HF3675 would appropriate $4 million to provide grants to public school districts to purchase and install solar energy systems on or near school buildings.
By Ricky Campbell
In nearly every state government agency and throughout many local governments, human resources departments give veterans preference in hiring. That isn’t the case in the Legisla...
By Michael Strasburg
HF3557 would require the Environmental Quality Board to exempt certain trails from mandatory environmental assessment worksheet requirements.
By Mike Cook
Protestors’ rights vs. public safety is heading back to the House Floor.
Sponsored by Rep. Nick Zerwas (R-Elk River), HF390, as amended, would increase the penalty from a mi...
By Michael Strasburg
As mid-April draws near, Minnesota residents are faced with the deadline to file state income taxes. A bill held over by the House Taxes Committee Thursday, however, would make ...
By Melissa Turtinen
When you go vote at your polling place on Election Day, you check in and verify your name and address — in some places this happens on a laptop or tablet — and then sign the oat...
By Zach Kayser
Gov. Mark Dayton mixed his legacy and final goals with some self-deprecating humor during his final State of the State address Wednesday.