The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare.

Members of the state Senate sent a clear message to voters Wednesday: We don’t trust you to become informed enough on your own to elect judges; and we think so little of you that we believe you can be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led ...

Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) spoke to the Senate Ethics Committee for the first time without legal counsel present on Thursday morning, testifying against two separate ethics ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ’n Shake with Fox News host ...

WASHINGTON—The leader of Senate Democrats moved to take the threat of a government shutdown off the table, following a ...

For the first time since her arrest for burglary nearly a year ago, Minnesota DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell spoke publicly at a ...

House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other aisle-hopping senators are ...

At the state Capitol, the discussion of your kids’ phones and electronic devices in school takes the next step.

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their ...

The Michigan DNR says it is "open" to negotiating changes to penalties associated with a controversial deer baiting ban in ...