Caroline Cummings

MINNEAPOLIS — Calvary Baptist Church has been a Minneapolis mainstay for 141 years. But the more than century-old structure needed a facelift to keep it going.

SCOTT COUNTY, Minn. — The Republican candidate in a close state House race is asking a judge to invalidate the results and declare a vacancy for that seat, which could prompt a special election sometime early next year.

State budget forecasters project extra money on the state's bottom line in the next two years but there are warning signs of a potential big deficit in the future.

St. Paul, Minn. — After losing his bid for vice president on the Democratic ticket this November, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he is not ruling out running for a third term in the state's top office.

WOODBURY, Minn. — One of two children who fell through the ice into a lake in Woodbury on Monday has died, according to the child's school district.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Fighting fraud in state programs will likely take center stage at the state capitol next year, after federal investigators accused

SHAKOPEE, Minn. — A Scott County judge on Monday heard arguments in an election contest with 21 missing ballots in question and whose outcome could determine the political power balance in the Minnesota House.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. — Six voters linked to the missing ballots at the center of the election contest in a south metro Minnesota House race testified on Tuesday that they voted for DFL incumbent Rep.

A DFL state representative-elect did not meet residency requirements for the district he ran to represent and is not eligible to serve in that office, a judge ruled Friday.

— From Gov. Tim Walz becoming the Democratic nominee for vice president to the whirlwind conclusion of Minnesota's legislative session, 2024 was packed with political highlights in the state.