Brian Bakst

Local party conventions around Minnesota are shaping top political races. Delegates are being selected for the state endorsing conventions at the end of May.

Minnesota's eight U.S. House seats don't change hands all that often, but after November's midterm election one seat certainly will.

The pace will crank up at the Minnesota Capitol next week. With fewer than six weeks before the required legislative adjournment, packages

Minnesota is suing — and has been sued — a lot. There are cases over health care funding, immigration, clean energy policy, election laws, tariffs, diversity policies and much more.

A Minnesota lawmaker who is a Democratic candidate for Congress has apologized for wagering through an online prediction market that he'd win his party primary.

There's an open seat in the U.S. Senate, and Republicans are trying to do something they haven't since 2006: Win a statewide election.

The Legislature will end its session this month. Lawmakers don't have a choice; the Minnesota Constitution requires them to wrap it up.

Minnesota lawmakers are filling in the details of a legislative budget agreement struck this week and will have to hustle to pass the bills needed to enact it.

Minnesota lawmakers have headed home for the year. The Legislature adjourned earlier this week after enacting some priorities and setting others to the side.

Thousands of the most politically involved Minnesotans are trading a leisurely spring weekend for the rough-and-tumble of indoor state party conventions.