In a Monday special session that went late into the night, the state legislature passed a $66 billion budget that includes a ...

When the next polar vortex plunges residents into the deep freeze, you can thank state legislators for keeping your gas bill ...

Bizarre palm trees get planted, an airport is failing, a rich stranger offers champagne and prime rib, and a DEA agent goes ...

The legislature passed a number of new policies as part of the broader spending bills that will fund the government over the next two years.

The special session is over, but federal health care cuts could force state lawmakers to revisit the budget they just passed. That's because Minnesota could lose half a billion dollars a year in ...

Budget runs counter to new EPA mission statement that calls for “clean air, land and water for every American.” ...

During his remarks in a press briefing today, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz celebrated after the Minnesota legislature passed a two-year budget. Walz stated, It's a "sausage-making situation." ...

U.S. House Republicans have removed a provision in the federal budget bill that would have reversed a pause on mining on federal land within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Environmental groups celebrated the decision, which was expected to be voted on by the full chamber Wednesday.

Some lawmakers called the process unwieldly from start to finish, and questioned why the city requested the money in 2023, ...

Connecticut will spend an estimated $30 million and $11 million, respectively, to cover children and women who are postpartum ...

NPR and PBS member stations with smaller budgets will struggle to stay on the air if Congress nixes current funding, public media executives warn.