Minnesota News

After a deadly Memorial Day weekend on Minnesota roads, authorities are stepping up patrols for drunken drivers over the Independence Day holiday.

The following summarizes news coverage of state abortion statistics in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

From First Read : Indeed, had Franken been in the Senate then, you could have probably added some $30-$50 billion to the size of the $787 billion stimulus; that was the cost of getting one more GOP vote, Susan Collins.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has now ended months of vote fraud and other assorted acts of skullduggery to pronounce Al Franken winner of the state's 2008 senatorial race over Republican Norm Coleman.

Minnesota residents can fish without a license in most state parks beginning Wednesday.

Residents in southwestern Minnesota will soon get a chance to comment on a report that shows an area lake continues to have poor water quality.

Duluth-based Monson Trucking is shutting down operations August 31st, putting 200 people out of work.

Senators Robert C. Byrd and Edward M. Kennedy before a military budget hearing in 2007.

Share + Jul 1, 2009 2:17 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Schools will wait longer for state aid checks, while health and welfare programs, local governments, colleges and universities and most state agencies will get less money.

The number of abortions in Minnesota in 2008 declined for the second straight year, with drops recorded among nearly all ages of women and girls.

The suburbs are still growing, but several cities in southern Minnesota lost population from 2007 to 2008.

Below is the statement of the Republican Party of Minnesota upon learning the news of the Al Franken win: Republican Party of Minnesota Statement on Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling St.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration is ready to move forward with his lone deficit fix starting Wednesday, even as criticism is mounting.

Minnesota's state budget meltdown finally starts to bite Wednesday. With the arrival of July 1, the state's $2.7 billion budget deficit for the next two years is no longer theoretical.

A torrent of political fundraising is underway in Minnesota even though the next election is still nearly 17 months away - activity prompted by Gov.

Warm weather and timely rains created excellent growing conditions across much of Minnesota this past week.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty had some harsh words this weekend for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the Republican that admitted to an affair last week.

More than 500 members of the Minnesota National Guard have finished their training at Fort Hood in Texas and are preparing to ship out to Kuwait and Iraq.

Supporters of Minnesota's latest constitutional amendment raising the state sales tax are showing what the money will do.

Saying the environmental damage to their native brothers' land in Canada is too great, tribal dissidents on two Minnesota Indian reservations are battling a major new oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.