DFLer Lisa Fobbe's election to the District 16 Minnesota Senate seat was anything but normal. Running in a 2008 special election occasioned by the appointment of popular GOP state Sen. Betsy Wergin to the Public Utilities Commission, Fobbe faced two Republican opponents - one of them a dispossessed state rep running a write-in campaign - in a heavily Republican district.

The filing deadline has come and gone. Candidates for the Minnesota Legislature are hitting the stump. But Democrats in 13 House and Senate districts and Republicans in 10 others will have to win in August to compete in November. Here are 10 legislative primaries to watch.

Republicans are sensing blood in the water of more than a dozen state House and Senate districts, and they’re circling.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has been named one of America's top 10 lawyers for 2009 by Lawyers USA, a Dolan Media company.

After losing a net two seats in Tuesday’s state House races, House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, is undecided about whether to seek another term ...