Gov. Mark Dayton named his human services commissioner to a spot on the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday, leaving a vacancy at the top of the state’s largest agency.

Republicans and anti-union activists had questioned the state law throughout the organizing process.

Southern Minnesota officials were concerned about notices going out to MNsure enrollees long before the state acknowledged last week that 16,000 public program notices detailing insufficient information to get coverage, for example, hadn't been sent out.

With the fate of proposed medical marijuana legislation still uncertain, Minnesotans for Compassionate Care heralded the latest additions to its coalition.

Departed Executive Director April Todd-Malmlov talks in detail for the first time about the troubled insurance exchange's launch -- and the behind-the-scenes scramble to make it work.

The most important spending to many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, a 5 percent pay hike for home and community-based services workers, will cost a projected $91 million.

In a statement following the decision, DHS Commissioner Lucinda Jesson echoed the call for legislative action this spring.

The Optum review lays out different options for MNsure's approach to solving its website difficulties.

The policy would have had an effect on the "most independent" people within the DHS network of long-term care.

Todd-Malmlov had lately come under scrutiny for taking a vacation while the newly hatched website was struggling through operational difficulties.