Local representatives named health care, transportation, tax reform and education as priorities going into the new legislative biennium Tuesday. “I’m sincerely optimistic that we’re ...

Halfway into his four-year term, Governor Tim Walz announced Jan. 25 that after two years of conversations with educators, school leaders, education organizations, students, and families, it is ...

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President Donald Trump looks poised to make good on his campaign promise to close the Department of Education.

From the column: "While in the minority during 2023 and 2024, Republicans showed up and never chose to stay home to avoid ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory ...

Between the chaos that unfolded this week, Minnesota lawmakers and the executive branch looked at a myriad of issues ...

Executive order put Minnesota in crosshairs, calling for justice department investigation of state’s “trans-refuge” law.

This week on the show, the pesticide tort reform bill is back, Iowa House Republicans’ higher education committee is in full ...

Skeptics voice worry about punitive measures for school districts and an emphasis on holding struggling students back.

Governor Kathy Hochul was in Rochester for a few hours on Friday afternoon, during which she addressed multiple topics facing ...