Bars and restaurants, wedding receptions and social gatherings are the targets of new restrictions Gov. Tim Walz announced last week. “We are in the midst of a significant surge,” Walz said, citing ...

The $1.36 billion bonding bill passed by the Minnesota Legislature last week includes funds for restoring two Hutchinson lakes. Lumped in with a laundry list of capital projects ranging from ...

Two Bemidji area organizations have received funding as part of $6.1 million in grants announced by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to expand access to child care across the state. The Minnesota Department of ...

Community colleges such as Ridgewater College in Hutchinson would be included in legislation aimed at making higher education tuition free in Minnesota. A bill that recently passed the ...

Gov. Tim Walz issued a new writ for a vacant Minnesota House seat that could mark the end of the House Democrats’ boycott ...

A power-sharing agreement between Republicans and Democrats gives more power to the GOP until a special election later this ...

Democrats and Republicans have a confirmed agreement in place. Republican Representative Lisa Demuth will serve as Speaker of ...

Democrats agreed to let a Republican take the speakership of the Minnesota House after a weekslong fight over control of the ...

DEED says its Child Care Economic Development Grant program provides funding to communities to invest in new or expanding ...

DFL and the GOP come to agreement over control of the Minnesota House after a four week dispute and a DFL boycott.

Gov. Tim Walz has announced the date for a special election to fill an open seat in the Minnesota House in District 40B. The ...

Mike McFeely is a columnist for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. He began working for The Forum in the 1980s while he was a ...