State Auditor Julie Blaha Releases 2025 Local Government Lobbying Services Report

State Auditor Julie Blaha to Attend Final Minnesota State Fair in Office - August 25, 2026

State Auditor Julie Blaha Joins Fiscal Stewards to Sound the Alarm on Trump's H-1B Crackdown Threatening America's Global Talent Edge - July 15, 2026

Gov. Tim Walz called an Executive Council meeting Wednesday to extend the peacetime emergency for wildfires in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for 30 more days.

The administration is deliberately obstructing refunds to protect large corporations while leaving working families behind.

MANKATO — Whether you’re in cardiac arrest or giving birth, it’s a relief to have a hospital nearby. But across the U.S., many of these life-saving institutions have been struggling

The state and local finance officers sent a letter to Fitch, Moody’s and S&P last month urging the companies to maintain “independent, forward-looking” risk assessments as part of their ratings framew...

MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha about the need to change the tariff refund system.

(The Center Square) – Minnesota’s top financial officer says uncertainty in federal funding and the economic ripple effects of Operation Metro Surge are already affecting local governments across the ...

Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha and two state senators outlined what they describe as the economic damage inflicted on local communities from the ongoing immigration crackdown.

Plus: Medicare under scrutiny; tariff refunds for Minnesotans unclear; a reader weighs in on the 1st District race; and more.

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Ramsey County is considering a 9.75% levy increase for next year.

Three former municipal employees in Clear Lake, Minn., are charged with embezzling $201,000, or nearly half of the city’s annual property tax revenue and a fifth of its entire budget.

"Let’s start with a shared understanding of how oversight in government works," State Auditor Julie Blaha writes. "I think of it like a hockey game — with fewer lost teeth."

State Auditor Julie Blaha Releases 2024 Asset Forfeitures and Forfeiture Expenditures Report

State auditor Julie Blaha, a Democrat, has held the office since 2019. The role checks in on local government spending and verifies federal money managed by the state. She will serve through Jan. 4, 2...

Minnesota leaders are discussing concerns with the effects the "Big Beautiful Bill" could have on Medicaid.