Minnesota Lawyer

Minnesota has made significant progress in increasing the percentage of households with broadband Internet service. But geographic, age and income barriers pose challenges to reaching the goal of being in the nation's top-five states.

The new head of the Energy Division of the Minnesota Department of Commerce, who will have significant influence on state energy policy, is the well-known environmentalist Bill Grant.

Following last week’s introduction of a bill that would scrap municipal garbage burning and landfill gas as renewable energy sources, the chair of a Minnesota House of Representatives panel said existing burners may be exempted from a proposed ban.

Franken and several Democratic Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would eliminate the federal tax deduction for spending on prescription drug advertising and marketing expenses.

Rather than fixating on the number of green jobs, Minnesota officials and environmental professionals and advocates on Friday agreed to concentrate on boosting energy efficiency and building up renewable energy sources.

Minnesota Twins reserve catcher Mike Redmond’s latest pitch is to save nearly 1 billion ash trees in Minnesota. The state needs all the help it can get to stop the trees from being killed by the emerald ash borer, a predatory beetle.

The politically charged recount of U.S. Senate votes for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL challenger Al Franken got even more political Monday, when conservative ...

Minnesotans who just can't get enough of elections will get their wish starting Nov. 19, when a state recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast ...

Minnesotans who just can't get enough of elections will get their wish starting Nov. 19, when a state recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast ...

In a prelude to Friday's first televised debate between U.S. Sens. and presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, state and local DFLers on Wednesday ...