politics

George Stanley McGovern, who rose from small-town roots in the South Dakota towns of Avon and Mitchell to the highest heights of American politics, died Sunday morning at a Sioux...

ST. PAUL -- Kurt Bills dumped several books on a table in his U.S. Senate campaign office, declaring they were his plan to fix the federal budget. He said those...

GROVE CITY -- Five-term incumbent Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, and Nancy Larson, a longtime DFLer who lives near Dassel, are seeking election to the State House of Representatives seat...

WILLMAR -- The possibility of starting schools before Labor Day highlighted some of the few differences between legislative candidates Thursday in a forum with area superintendents and school officials. The...

WILLMAR -- Two men who were born and raised in Stearns County are competing for a seat on the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners this year. Roger Imdieke and Alan...

ST. PAUL -- As they campaign, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney pretty much ignore rural-specific issues. It is not that they lack a chance to talk about such...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie uses state funds to campaign against a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to show photographic identification, two Republican state...

WILLMAR -- Joe Gimse and Lyle Koenen have differing views about property tax relief and the future of the local government aid program to Minnesota cities, but on other issues...

WILLMAR -- It's a three-way race for the State House of Representatives District 17B seat representing nearly all of Kandiyohi County, but the candidates were often of one voice when...