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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary each month to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Legislature is famous for deciding major issues near the end of each year’s session. Expect 2013 to be no different. So far, Gov. Mark Dayton...

WILLMAR — House Majority Leader Erin Murphy says the Legislature is delivering what Minnesota wants and needs: balancing the budget honestly, investing in educational and bonding priorities and getting the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A familiar budget plan to sharply cut safety-net programs for the poor and clamp down on domestic agencies performing the nuts-and-bolts programs of the government is cruising...

ST. PAUL — State schools would be the biggest beneficiaries of a state House Democratic budget proposal that goes beyond the governor’s plan to increase taxes on the rich. Minnesota...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their...

ST. PAUL -- Gov. Mark Dayton scaled back his tax requests today after hearing from the public, businesses and legislators that they were not keen on expanding the sales tax...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is asking Minnesota’s wealthiest citizens to pay more than a billion dollars in new income taxes in order to boost state funding...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans unveiled their latest budget outline on Tuesday, sticking to their plans to try to repeal so-called Obamacare, cut domestic programs ranging from Medicaid to college...

NEW LONDON — The New London-Spicer School Board received the first draft Monday of potential budget reductions for the 2013-14 school year. The administration-recommended list includes $191,905 in cuts on...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-controlled House approved legislation Wednesday to prevent a government shutdown on March 27 and blunt the impact of newly imposed spending cuts on the Defense Department...

NEW LONDON — The New London-Spicer School District’s finance committee is recommending budget reductions of between $145,000 to $200,000 for the upcoming school year. The New London-Spicer School board heard...

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000...