Gov. Tim Walz said his budget proposal unveiled Tuesday would make "significant strides" lowering health care costs and improving education statewide. But a key Republican derided it as a plan to turn Minnesota into a "cold California."

It would be under the umbrella of the Air Force to try to simplify the process. This represents a shift; Trump had stated that he wanted a space force that is "separate but equal" from the Air Force.

Minnesota is among 16 states, led by California, that filed a lawsuit Monday against President Trump's emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Retired Hennepin County Judge Pamela Alexander, 66, is a fourth-generation Minnesotan and the first black female judge in Minnesota.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar continued her first presidential campaign swing in New Hampshire, which culminated in a CNN Town Hall question-and-answer session that aired live Monday night.

Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers called for a watchdog investigation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday after the agency confirmed it had been force-feeding immigrant detainees on a hunger strike.

The Vermont independent became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.

The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing -- and occasionally frightening --for some Americans, especially those accustomed to getting money back from the government.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, during which Stone must show cause as to why she shouldn't alter the gag order she has imposed or reconsider Stone's bail.

If Minnesota lawmakers pass a bill legalizing recreational marijuana use -- a policy Gov. Tim Walz supports -- how would users' health be affected?

The state now requires many of its Medicaid beneficiaries to work, go to school or volunteer in order to keep their health insurance. But more than 18,000 have come off the rolls.

"We don't have a lot of experience with investigating presidents of the United States," McCabe says. "There is not a standard SOP on the shelf that you pull down to say, 'Here's how it's done.'"

The justice has been recovering at home since late December. She missed January's oral argument days but participated in those 11 cases based on written briefs and transcripts of the arguments.

A 48-acre concept to develop the Mississippi riverfront in north Minneapolis is one step closer to reality after a key city council committee approved it Tuesday.

Spoiler Alert: An economist has evidence that we're in a golden age of cinema.

The band says it took four hours for Burlington Northern Santa Fe to notify the tribe Saturday, when 40 train cars overturned, spilling coal onto the frozen surface of the St. Louis River.

A Minnesota environmental group filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, seeking to force it to make public the concerns its specialists have expressed about a copper-nickel mine in the northeast of the state.

The bill was postponed indefinitely 53-45 in West Virginia's House of Delegates. Educators opposed charter schools and a new voucher system in a strike that came a year after the last walkout.

Trump's plan includes a focus on fighting HIV in the rural Midwest and South. But there are doubts in Oklahoma, where the state's uninsured rate and stigmatization of HIV are high.