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WILLMAR -- Legislators from west central Minnesota have been invited to attend a legislative listening session Monday morning in Willmar. The session is sponsored by the Willmar Area League of...

ST. PAUL -- A Minnesota Capitol undercurrent for months has suggested gambling as a way to help solve a budget impasse that now has become the longest government shutdown in...

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WILLMAR -- The uncertainty of school funding during the state government shutdown is leading the Willmar School Board to consider borrowing $3.5 million this fall to maintain a positive cash...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar School Board will discuss borrowing $3.5 million to maintain a positive cash flow while state government is shut down. The board will meet at 4:30 p.m...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota is seeing its credit rating slip over budget problems that have led to the state's week-old government shutdown. The state finance agency, Minnesota Management and Budget,...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A commission convened by former Vice President Walter Mondale and former Gov. Arne Carlson says Minnesota should raise cigarette, alcohol and income taxes to end a week-old government...

I profoundly regret that our budget situation came to a state shutdown. Gov. Mark Dayton did not need to do this. We offered three major compromises to him that he...

Minnesota's state government shutdown has now entered its seventh day with no end in sight. State leaders gave little indication Wednesday that they are progressing to an agreement. The state's...

The shutdown could have been avoided. How many believe the legislators cut too much with their "all cuts" proposal? November's election was an outcry from the voters to bring back...

In response to the letter from the Kandiyohi County Republican Party Co-Chair Roland Nissen, published June 30: Roland Nissen stated that I claimed "The Republicans would jeopardize people's lives if...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota state government is in a partial shutdown and the first budget negotiations in days resulted in nothing more than an agreement to meet again. When Democratic...

The July 4th holiday is a busy time at Sibley State Park north of Willmar. Except this year. On Saturday evening, all was quiet with only several families of geese...

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Zoo has reopened despite the state government shutdown, thanks to a judge's ruling earlier this weekend. The zoo in Apple Valley opened at...