Three-week impasse ends with deal that makes Republican Lisa Demuth speaker of the House for two years, gives GOP temporary control of committees.

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith’s (D) decision to not run for reelection in 2026 is adding another headache for Democrats trying to win back control of the Senate in two years. Smith became the second ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota said Thursday that she won’t seek reelection, setting off a scramble by potential candidates in both major political parties to fill her open ...

The new leader for Democrats will be in charge of regrouping and unifying the party during a second Trump administration ...

Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Democrats are calling on Republicans to join them in standing up to the Trump administration’s ...

Republicans in Minnesota's progressive-dominated government have notched a temporary majority in the House through a power-sharing agreement reached Thursday after Democrats refused to show up to ...

Sen. Tina Smith said she wants to spend more time with her family after 20 years of work in the public sector.

The Democratic National Committee chose Mr. Martin, the leader of the Minnesota Democrats, to help oversee a demoralized national party split over its future and its response to President Trump.

Tina Smith of Minnesota said Thursday that she won’t seek reelection, setting off a scramble by potential candidates in both major political parties to fill her open seat. Several Democrats said ...

Martin came up in politics as a Minnesota political staffer in 1998, when pro wrestler Jesse Ventura and his Reform Party won the governorship and Democrats notched less than a third of the ...

Democrats agreed to let a Republican take the speakership of the Minnesota House after a weekslong fight over control of the chamber. By Ernesto Londoño Reporting from St. Paul, Minn A bitter ...