Lenczewski talked to Capitol Report about her big career move after nine terms in the House.

Lenczewski told Capitol Report Thursday she is backing Bloomington City Council Member Andrew Carlson.

Though passage of the pair of financial bills were seen as inevitable, their path off the chamber floors could hardly have been more different.

Lawmakers in the lower chamber passed the infrastructure package – plus $200 million more in supplemental cash appropriations for construction projects – early Friday morning with relatively little debate and strong bipartisan support.

A final framework deal is in place for the second major tax-cut bill this session, signaling a resolution to one of the key end-of-session bills of 2014.

The legislation would cut an estimated $103 million in revenue during the current biennium, with an out-biennium tax reduction of $118 million for 2016-2017. An initially slow-moving conference committee, kept many of the House's property tax cut proposals intact, but drifted closer to the Senate tax reduction target.

The Minnesota House and Senate conferees must reconcile vastly different bills.

The Minnesota Lottery’s recent foray into online lottery ticket sales may soon come to a screeching halt.

1) Gov. Mark Dayton has offered to spend roughly $262 million in his supplemental budget proposal, up roughly $100 million from his original plan, as ...

Lawmakers are expected to announce a deal on Monday raising Minnesota's minimum wage to $9.50 an hour with inflationary increases thereafter. Negotiations between the Senate -- which has been dragging its feet on the issue -- and the House, have been a major political division this session between the Democrats who control the Legislature.