Nearing the end of his term as Minnesota governor, Mark Dayton is eyeing his legacy, rather than ambitious new policy initiatives. In his eighth and final State of the State address, delivered to ...

Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in the weekend shooting of Minnesota lawmakers, is a former pastor and an appointee to the ...

The fatal police shooting of Philando Castile is emerging as the latest test of Gov. Mark Dayton's administration as it publicly grapples with racial tensions and disparities around Minnesota.

Mark Dayton in 2015. It’s a governor’s job to appoint judges in the state of Minnesota, and when Mark Dayton took over, he noticed a pattern: most of the finalists were white guys. It wasn’t ...

In mid-June 2025, a rumor began to spread that Vance Boelter, the accused shooter of two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers ...

The 57-year-old served on a workforce council under former Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton from 2016 to 2018, and again under Gov.

Eight Minnesota Democrats had already announced they intended to run for the U.S. Senate in 2000 on the day Mark Dayton walked through the state Capitol press room and casually told reporters he ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton nears the end of eight years in office to cap a four-decade political career, he's content to take a back seat in the race to replace him.

During his two terms in office, Gov. Mark Dayton has routinely pitched packages of state-backed construction projects that spend north of $1 billion, arguing more projects will put tens of ...

Republican House Speaker Kurt Daudt accused Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton of a "dereliction of duty." "He ought to have a command center set up 24/7 with a 1,000 people in trying to solve this ...

Gubernatorial candidates: on left, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton. On right, top row: Republican challengers state Rep. Kurt Zellers, state Sen. Dave Thompson. On right ...