The Minnesota House’s top Democrat helped shepherd a package of liberal initiatives to passage when her party had a narrow majority two years ago. After Democrats lost their majority, she helped broker a deal to keep state government funded and provided a crucial vote to pass it,

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman, fatally shot in a targeted attack, recently made headlines as the only House Democratic vote to repeal healthcare for illegal immigrants

Governor Tim Walz signed into law on Saturday the remaining bills that make up Minnesota’s two-year state budget.

Budget delays have been common across the country amid lousy economic forecasts, federal uncertainty and other factors.

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home shortly after 2 a.m.

Adults living in the U.S. illegally will be excluded from a state-run health care program under a budget deal that the Minnesota Legislature convened to pass in a special session Monday.

The mother and daughter were among the Minnesotans who have been warily watching and showing up at the State Capitol this year to protest waiver changes and other proposals they feared would “balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable.