A proposal eliminating unemployment benefits for school employees like bus drivers is likely to die off, opening the path for the K-12 education budget to advance.

Margins are extremely tight in both the Senate and House, and a handful of defections on various bills that form the budget would stall progress. The DFL has a one-seat majority in the Senate, and ...

Despite coming to a budget compromise earlier this week, some DFL lawmakers are saying they will vote down the proposed ...

DFL lawmakers in both the House and Senate saying they won’t vote for any bill that strips away immigrants’ access to health ...

By Peter Cox It might be all over but the shouting on a budget agreement between legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz at ...

Legislative leaders in a divided state capitol on Thursday announced a roughly $66 billion budget framework to fund the government and its services, which also includes spending adjustments to make a ...

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The legislative session ends on Monday and lawmakers prepared to finalize state spending plans after reaching an agreement on ...

Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature announced a hard-fought budget deal Thursday, contrasting the bipartisan cooperation that produced the agreement with the deep divisions that ...

Gov. Tim Walz worked with Minnesota lawmakers in the state House and Senate to come to a bipartisan budget deal on Thursday, ...

Deal comes after about two weeks of closed-door negotiations. A special session may be needed to finish the work.

Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders announced a budget agreement Thursday that they’ll have to sprint to complete ahead of ...