Jun. 6—By Nathaniel Minor, Star Tribune (TNS) MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota's narrowly divided Legislature have struck a deal on the state budget and will return to St. Paul on ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota House’s top Democrat helped shepherd a package of liberal initiatives to passage when her party had a narrow majority two years ago. After Democrats lost their ...

FILE - State Rep. Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, smiles during the nomination process before she was elected speaker of the Minnesota House as the 2019 Legislature convened, in St. Paul, Minn ...

Minnesota's slain Democratic leader saw liberal victories, then brokered a budget deal out of power Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman was the state House's top Democrat and as House speaker ...

Hortman had served as the House Democrats' leader since 2017, and six years as speaker, starting in 2019. She had to give up the speaker's job this year after the 2024 elections produced the even ...

State Rep. Melissa Hortman, 55, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday in her Minneapolis-area home along with her husband by someone posing as a law ...