A child and two adults were killed Wednesday morning in an apparent murder-suicide at a Hopkins daycare. Burnsville police also believe a 78-year-old woman found dead Wednesday is connected to the ...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is proposing an 11.3 percent property tax hike to help cover a budget gap. While some city programs and positions would be cut, the proposal also includes new spending for ...

Democrat Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Republican Michele Tafoya have come to politics from very different routes and backgrounds. As the two battle it out for an open U.S. Senate seat, analysts expect ...

Marlene Johnson served as Minnesota's lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1991. She was the first woman in the role. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up ...

Moderate Democrat David Crowley has won the Wisconsin primary for governor. He defeated democratic socialist Francesca Hong. Crowley is vying to become Wisconsin’s first Black governor.

Powers and Garcia will face off in the general election in November, and the winner will be tasked with guiding Rochester through a period of tremendous change.

After winning the GOP primary, state Sen. Eric Pratt will ask voters in the general election to send him to Congress to represent a competitive district in southeast Minnesota.

Minnesota will elect a new governor this year. Party primaries today will decide the options for voters in the fall.

Right to repair would allow St. Paul renters to take smaller repairs into their own hands — if a landlord does not — and get reimbursed. Believing the measure may violate state law, the city appealed ...

The plan would provide moving stipends for families to escape unhealthy living conditions at the complex. The 83 families who do not receive federal housing vouchers would be eligible.

Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News guest host Catharine Richert and two political strategists discuss what Tuesday’s primary election results mean for Minnesota politics and the November ...

Voters are primed to elect the first woman as Minnesota governor and return a woman to a U.S. Senate seat that is open this fall.