The Minnesota House voted Friday to take the politically charged decisions about their salaries out of their own hands, approving a constitutional amendment that would ask voters if there should be an independent state council to set legislative pay.

Minnesota's House and Senate are in session, with long weekend shifts likely as the clock counts down on the regular session.

The Legislature has sent Gov. Mark Dayton a bill that freezes tuition rates at the state's public colleges and universities for the next two years.

The St. Paul-based History Theatre is taking its show on the road to greater Minnesota in June and July.

The Minnesota Legislature is meeting over the weekend as the clock counts down on the regular session.

For the second time in two weeks, the Minnesota Twins scored enough to win against Boston's unbeaten ace, Clay Buchholz.

Minnesota's history isn't complete without the stories of water travelers who portaged their canoes by carrying them overland between bodies of water.

Night had fallen in the Minnesota arrowhead, and a cross country skier was hopelessly lost on a trail somewhere outside of Silver Bay with no flashlight to cut through the darkness. She had a phone for contacting rescuers but no way to give them a location with any precision.

Will Middlebrooks gave Boston a comeback victory the night before with a big swing. This time, he dropped down a bunt to advance the go-ahead run.

Jonny Gomes hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to another comeback victory, 3-2 over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

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Duluth police have released the name of a 36-year-old man who died after crashing his bicycle into a pole.

A state Capitol facelift, college campus building projects and regional civic center upgrades got thrown in limbo Friday when the Minnesota House failed to muster enough votes for an $800 million construction bill.

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer was out of the lineup Friday night for the series opener against Boston because of a stiff back.

The Ramsey County medical examiner's office has identified a body recovered from a Beltrami County lake as that of a missing man.

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus.

A state Capitol facelift, college campus building projects and regional civic center upgrades got thrown in limbo Friday when the Minnesota House failed to muster enough votes for an $800 million construction bill.

A Minnesota bartender is charged with serving alcohol to an underage customer who drowned in a nearby pond after leaving the bar last month.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reopening a lock and dam on the Mississippi River near Fountain City after a towboat hit one of the gates.

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer has a stiff back, keeping him out of the lineup for the series opener against Boston.