Minnesota public defenders are struggling under heavy caseloads to fulfill their constitutional obligation to represent every person accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer, according to a report...

LE SUEUR — Michele Tafoya has TV skills and an opponent saddled with the state’s fraud scandal. What she needs now is money. Polls show Tafoya is in a dead heat with Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan...

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Republican Ron Schutz said if he’s elected Minnesota attorney general, he will give up control of his vast stock portfolio and divest from any companies that are currently in litigation with the state...

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Republican Ron Schutz said if he’s elected Minnesota attorney general, he will give up control of his vast stock portfolio and divest from any companies that are currently in litigation with the state...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...

Fewer than half of Minnesota students who take the state’s standardized test are able to read and do math at grade-level expectations, according to data released Wednesday by the state’s education dep...

The Minneapolis City Council voted 7-4 to advance a proposal on Tuesday to require human “safety monitors” earning minimum pay rates in the drivers’ seats of autonomous robotaxis like Alphabet’s Waymo...

The Minneapolis City Council voted 7-4 to advance a proposal on Tuesday to require human “safety monitors” earning minimum pay rates in the drivers’ seats of autonomous robotaxis like Alphabet’s Waymo...

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...

If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...

Mayo Clinic charged admitted patients on private insurance more than twice as much as Medicare patients in 2022, according to a RAND study from 2024 on hospital pricing. For outpatient services — proc...

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly early Thursday issued an order that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House.Kelly, in the ...

The union representing about 150 Allina hospital doctors announced on Wednesday a tentative agreement on a first labor contract covering wages and benefits. The agreement follows a four-day strike las...

The Ohio Chamber of Commerce has sued UnitedHealth. It says the giant was to provide administrative services, but poached clients instead.

The Minneapolis City Council is considering a proposal to effectively ban driverless robotaxis, as several council members push to protect the jobs of more than 10,000 rideshare drivers in the state. ...

House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican primary for governor despite losing the Minnesota Republican Party’s convention endorsement — a first since 1994. Now she’s putting up a credible challenge...

The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.

WASHINGTON — The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis rel...

The winter surge of 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minnesota eventually led to over 2,300 immigrants leaving the country, according to updated federal data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...

Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. Doctors ...

Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. Doctors ...

New minimum wages for Minnesota nursing home workers received final federal approval and will take effect on Sept. 10, more than three years after the state Legislature created a nation-leading labor ...

Minnesota’s labor market faced some turbulence over the past year, in part from the surge in immigration enforcement over the winter that left many immigrants afraid to leave their homes to work and s...

Diesel has hit a new record price in the U.S., soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time ever.

Chip Tangen is sure to lose in November. He’s the Libertarian candidate for secretary of state. But there he is in the blazing heat at the Minnesota State Fair, waving to passersby and handing out cam...

Chip Tangen is sure to lose in November. He’s the Libertarian candidate for secretary of state. But there he is in the blazing heat at the Minnesota State Fair, waving to passersby and handing out cam...

Federal prosecutors have charged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro with making false statements about the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis Jan. 14, the N...

When Michele Tafoya said Americans could handle higher gas prices caused by the war in Iran with a “stiff upper lip” and “one less trip to Starbucks,” she likely wasn’t talking about herself. The reti...

A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s second attempt to redefine birthright citizenship.

When Michele Tafoya said Americans could handle higher gas prices caused by the war in Iran with a “stiff upper lip” and “one less trip to Starbucks,” she likely wasn’t talking about herself. The reti...

CoreCivic, the private prison company opening a new immigrant detention center in Appleton, Minnesota, has offered to pay the city more than $1.2 million per year. CoreCivic sold the Prairie Correctio...

Minnesota’s spending on Medicaid is projected to far outpace the state’s growth in tax revenue over the next several years, underscoring the urgent challenge posed by federal cuts to a state budget al...

A devoted St. Paul bicyclist died this summer when he hit a just-opened car door. The driver was not cited, and few ever are.

For Amit, it all started with a college poker game. Now he's in recovery from a gambling addiction that consumed him and his parents.