As the deadline to file for candidacy passed Tuesday afternoon, three Democrats and one Republican sought the mantle of ...

Prospective candidates can file to run for office in House District 34B — the seat left vacant by the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman — until 5 p.m. Tuesday. Republican Ruth Bittner ...

Gov. Tim Walz ordered a special election for Sept. 16 to fill Hortman’s seat representing parts of Brooklyn Park, Champlin ...

The defense lawyer for a man accused of killing the top Democratic leader in the Minnesota House and her husband, and ...

A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted Vance Boelter, accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota state representative and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife.

Brooklyn Park City Council member Christian Eriksen announced his candidacy for the Minnesota House seat formerly held by the late Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman via press release and a website.

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was taken from us by the kind of political violence that is becoming all too common — violence that doesn’t just hurt families, but threatens the integrity of ...

It is too late for David Broderick, and for Bobby Kennedy, and for Martin Luther King Jr., and for Melissa Hortman, and for every other American who was ever lynched, executed, tortured, or killed ...

07/04/2025 Funeral for Melissa & Mark Hortman Season 2025 Episode 42 | 56m 39sVideo has Closed Captions| CC House Speaker and husband final farewell eulogized by Gov. Walz.

Hundreds gathered Saturday morning at Minneapolis' Basilica of St. Mary for the private funeral of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert.

Like everyone who works around the state Capitol, I was shocked when I learned of the assassination of Melissa Hortman. The intimate, horrifying violence of the act, combined with the loss of such ...