The message from Republican legislative challengers on last summer's campaign trail was clear: Farmers are suffering from state lawmakers' recent changes to the Green Acres farmland preservation program.

A Republican proposal to repeal controversial changes to the Green Acres farmland tax program will be the second bill introduced this session in the Senate.

The power divide between DFLers and Republicans in the Minnesota House may look daunting on its face, but not so long ago the GOP held a similarly imposing majority.

The Conservation Minnesota Advocacy group downgraded dozens of legislators in its 2009 legislative scorecard released Monday.

On this St. Patrick’s Day evening, when all the world will be Irish and green the ubiquitous color, it’s perhaps fitting that two state House ...

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 ...

State legislators are mulling ways to reform a 40-year-old farmland protection program that has allowed large amounts of non-farmland — swamp and brush — to ...