Latest Minnesota state government News

Hmong Minnesotans who support Tim Walz hope to sway fellow Hmong communities in swing states

Oct. 09, 2024 15:28 PM EDT

As co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association in Minnesota, Janssen Hang has met Gov. Tim Walz several times. It's usually been on farmland with Walz in his trademark red flannel shirt. “I’ve seen that red flannel multiple times.” Hang said,...

Minnesota Supreme Court weighs whether a woman going topless violates an indecent exposure law

Oct. 09, 2024 14:01 PM EDT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman's misdemeanor conviction for going topless in public should be overturned because female breasts are not defined as “private parts” by the state's indecent exposure statute, her attorney told the state Supreme Court. Eloisa Plancarte was...

Minnesota state senator pleads not guilty to burglarizing stepmother's home

Aug. 28, 2024 17:51 PM EDT

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota state senator has pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of her estranged stepmother after her father's death. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a Democrat from the St. Paul suburb of Woodbury, was charged in April. She told police at the time that...

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country's first Native American female governor

Aug. 09, 2024 10:23 AM EDT

If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history too. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant...