Around convention time in the spring, Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, boasted that his caucus would retake the chamber’s majority in November. Considering Senate Republicans’ 38-year stranglehold on minority status, and the 13 seats that his troops will need to gain to make good on the pledge, it amounts to a tall order.

Behind the many headlines the Central Corridor LRT project has generated, a bevy of state and local organizations has collaborated to integrate renewable and efficient energy issues into the corridor’s ongoing story.

Brett Favre’s final playoff pass didn’t get the Minnesota Vikings into the Super Bowl, and it now appears that the team’s last-minute pitch to fund a new stadium will meet a similar fate.

The city of St. Paul has jumped to the front of what might prove to be a long line of cities banning official travel to the state of Arizona.

Minnesota Republican Party Chair Tony Sutton this afternoon blamed House Speaker (and DFL gubernatorial candidate) Margaret Anderson Kelliher and her party for the potentially disastrous consequences of today's state Supreme Court ruling that Gov. Tim Pawlenty overstepped his unallotment authority last year.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is calling on St. Paul's state legislators to push back against what he called an "imbalance" in the current Vikings stadium legislation that favors the western Twin Cities metropolitan area over the East Metro.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman welcomed Tomihisa Taue, the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, to Minnesota on Wednesday as part of a longtime sister-city relationship between the two cities.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman says he will tell both the Democratic and Republican national committees not to hold their 2012 political conventions in Phoenix.

Chris Coleman and Walter Mondale are the latest DFL luminaries to announce their endorsements for governor.

The metro area slipped in the latest Environmental Protection Agency list of cities with the most Energy Star-rated buildings, but it’s still doing pretty well.