Minnesota Matters

A group of voters sued Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials on Tuesday to try to block a requirement that voters wear face masks at polling place to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Olmsted County is among the local governmental entities facing legal action over the use of county employees as members of the absentee ballot review board for the upcoming elections.

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a dramatic shift for what has long been a fall tradition.

While Minnesota’s daily COVID-19 death total has been in the single digits for more than a month, there has been another troubling trend.

A recent spike in traffic fatalities in Minnesota continues.

The agreement allows voters to submit their mail-in or absentee ballots without witness signatures.

South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is bracing to host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

Divers have recovered the body of a St. Cloud man who drowned after falling off a floating tube in Big Lake.

A Minnesota pork company has received the vast majority of payments from an Iowa program designed to support farmers who euthanized their hogs after the coronavirus devastated their industry.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a complaint against an Itasca County company that organized and promoted a three-day rodeo that allegedly drew large crowds after the state imposed a spectator limit for the event.

Minnesota faces a potential $4.7 billion deficit in its next two-year budget due to economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.