GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Legislators passed a bill this spring to provide $500 million in bonus checks to workers who had to report to their jobs during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and put themselves at greater risk than those who were able to work remotely.

"As an agricultural reporter, my job is to report the news."

Memo says to refer to abortion as a "protected constitutional right in Minnesota."

Incumbent Detroit Lakes City Council members and the candidates running to replace them discussed sidewalk snow removal, the future of the Pavilion and other issues affecting the city during a candidate forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters, at the Detroit Lakes Police Department on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.

All but one of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidates for statewide office have maintained a fundraising edge in the 2022 campaign.

The court backed a court-appointed referee who determined state Sen. Torrey Westrom, R-Alexandria, lives within the boundaries of the new Senate District 12 and meets the residency requirements for the 2022 general election.

As early voting got underway in Minnesota on Sept. 23, Rep. Michelle Fischbach and other GOP candidates running for office in the region met in Detroit Lakes with members of the Becker County Republican Party to seek volunteers and hand out yard signs for the upcoming 2022 general election.

The statewide office doesn’t always grab headlines in an election year, and the work of the auditor is often not as political or high-profile as other offices says Julie Blaha, a DFLer who is running for her second term in the office.

Gov. Tim Walz said his 15-year-old son, who attends high school in Mankato, Minnesota, came home traumatized after police responded to a fake call reporting an active shooter at the school Wednesday.