MINNEAPOLIS, MN (KVRR) – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a writ of special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of former Speaker Melissa Hortman. That announcement was made on Friday, July 11. The special election will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025, for District 34B in Anoka and Hennepin Counties. A special primary election for nominations…
BELTRAMI CO, Minn. (KVRR/FOX9) National Weather Service confirms the Bemidji area was hit by a microburst with winds that reached up to 120 miles per hour last Saturday. The survey summary states a severe thunderstorm created “a 10-mile-wide swath of destructive straight-line winds”. It hit downtown Bemidji and through the southern and eastern areas of Lake Bemidji. Homes and vehicles…
Minnesota became the latest state Wednesday to face a lawsuit from the Trump administration seeking to force it to give its high school graduates who entered the U.S. illegally as immigrants the same lower tuition rates reserved for in-state citizens. The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit also seeks to strike down a law that allows the same immigrant students to receive scholarships…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — Governor Tim Walz announced that Representative Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their dog Gilbert will lie in State on Friday, June 27th. The Hortman’s and Gilbert were killed in a targeted attack at their home earlier this month. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were wounded in an attack at their home…
Aboard Air Force One/June 17 (CNN)WASHINGTON (AP/CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday ruled out calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers, saying that to do so would “waste time.” A spokesperson for Walz said the governor wishes Trump “would be a President for all Americans.” One lawmaker and her husband were killed, and the second legislator and…
Rep. Hortman and Sen. Hoffman, respectively.MINNEAPOLIS, MN – According to multiple media outlets, two Minnesota lawmakers, Rep. Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman, were shot inside their homes in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in coordinated early-morning attacks. Both are Democrats. Both lawmakers’ spouses were shot in the attacks as well. The Brooklyn Park Police Department sent out a shelter-in-place…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul attend a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump spars with California’s governor over immigration enforcement, Republicans in Congress called other Democratic governors to the Capitol on…
Gov. Tim Walz (D) MinnesotaST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) – A new poll shows that most Minnesotans approve of the job Governor Tim Walz is doing for Minnesota, but they’re not sure if he should run for a third term. According to a KSTP/Survey USA poll, 58% of Minnesotans approve of the governor’s job performance, while 39% disapprove. When the group…
Gov. Tim Walz (D) MinnesotaCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sought to energize activists at a Democratic state convention in South Carolina, as the party’s 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and…
St. Paul / Friday, May 23ST. PAUL (KVRR) –Working groups at the capitol in St. Paul are off this holiday weekend and will return on Tuesday to push through the final budget bills. “Mr. Chairman we will not be meeting over the weekend. Um, we will meet again on Tuesday and we’ll let you know when,” Sen. Ann Rest, a…
