The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Lawmakers on Monday introduced a bipartisan bill to address fraud in Minnesota's Medicaid program, known as Medical ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – New legislation aims to give the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office new tools to hold Medicaid fraudsters ...

In terms of its “surprise factor,” Shaheen’s announcement fell somewhere in between those of her two aforementioned Democratic colleagues, neither of whom could be considered old by Senate standards, ...

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ State Climatology Office is seeking rainfall monitors for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. The network includes more than 20,000 ...

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is spending the week meeting with Minnesotans to focus on the state's rural economy.

Lawmakers are proposing “Purple Rain” and “Girl from the North Country” to join “Hail! Minnesota.” We auditioned some ...

A decades-old shift of some property taxes paid by cabin and second home owners has meant millions in lost revenue for lakes-heavy Minnesota school districts. For more than 20 years, a portion of ...

MPR News host Tom Crann talks with Shannon Watson, from Majority in the Middle, about how a tie in the Minnesota House could benefit the state.