Gov. Pawlenty recently ended a veto drought that began March 15.

Like a kid learning to ride a bike, Sean Kershaw believes, the state legislative session of 2008 was wobbly but managed to make progress. The ...

State lawmakers on a tax conference committee are fighting over how to fix the troubled farmland preservation program known as Green Acres. At issue is ...

Some Minnesota lawmakers think a state law that is designed to keep their fellow politicians’ hands out of a state health care fund doesn’t go ...

House and Senate budget negotiators will start looking at ways to reconcile their budget proposals this week in hopes of sending a plan to Gov. ...

Local government interests breathed a sigh of relief when Gov. Tim Pawlenty didn’t propose to reach into local government aid programs to solve the state’s ...

When Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a tax-related bill signed into law March 7, housing advocates cheered at the prospect of more affordable housing in Minnesota. ...

More than a decade after former state Sen. Bob Lessard of International Falls started proposing it, state legislators last Thursday approved putting a question on ...

In an unusual twist, the state’s biggest business group is close to agreeing with DFLers on their $8.4 billion funding package for transportation in Minnesota. ...

University of Minnesota officials last week said they will ask the state for $225 million in this year’s bonding bill. The single largest need outlined ...