Elections

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota legislators are returning to St. Paul today with a goal of appropriating $80 million to help communities hit by floods and tornadoes. Most of the money would go to southern Minnesotans who endured floods last month, but $6.6 million is set aside for Wanda and...

OWATONNA, Minn. -- Sweat covered the former U.S. senator's face. A lot of sweat. Mark Dayton, now running for governor, spent time in Owatonna cleaning up a home basement after recent flooding. His well-worn gloves and jeans showed that the man born into one of Minnesota's best-known...

A coalition of conservative political groups is organizing a program to prevent voter fraud in the Nov. 2 election. Election Integrity Watch is recruiting volunteers to join what it calls "surveillance teams" to observe polling places, organizers from the Tea Party, Minnesota Majority...

The Detroit Lakes Area League of Women Voters and Lake Park Audubon School District's Community Education Department will co-host a School Board Candidate Forum on Monday, Oct. 25 in the Theatre of the High School beginning at 7 p.m. Seven candidates have filed for the four open...

The Detroit Lakes Area League of Women Voters and the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce will co-host a series of Candidate Forums in the weeks prior to the Nov. 2 general election. The four forums will include candidates for State House and Senate seats representing Becker...

The Becker County Coalition of Lake Associations (COLA) and the Detroit Lakes Area League of Women Voters announce a candidate forum for County Commission candidates. This event will focus specifically on environmental and natural resource issues affecting Becker County. The forum...

SUGGESTED HED: POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Horner rolls out endorsements ST. PAUL -- Tom Horner's campaign has rolled out big-name supporters for the Independence Party governor candidate. The campaign brought out a baker's dozen former Republican lawmakers to announce they support...

Questions about political poll accuracy are increasing this campaign season, but a couple of recent polls were good news for Minnesota Democratic governor candidate Mark Dayton. Still, Dayton said: "We always thought it would be close." The University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute-Minnesota...

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Zogby Interactive: Democrats Take One-Point Lead In Congressional Generic Ballot; Obama Approval Goes Up to 49% Democrats have taken a one percentage point lead over Republicans on which party's candidate voters intend to choose in the Congressional election; and President Barack...

Today, DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton invited leaders of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the Minnesota Business Partnership to work with him in the next month to identify areas where future state spending can be cut without causing drastic effects on the lives of Minnesotans....

UTICA, New York - Republicans lead Democrats, 42%-41%, among likely voters on the question of which party's candidates for Congress they intend to support. This is a tightening of the GOP margin from July 29, when Republicans led, 46%-38%. President Barack Obama's approval rating...

ST. PAUL -- Mark Dayton is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor candidate. Opponent Margaret Anderson Kelliher made it official late Wednesday morning when she conceded. "I just spoke with Mark Dayton and congratulated him on winning the DFL primary," Kelliher said in a statement....