Minnesota’s largest state government employee unions reached new contract deals on Friday that will bring their members the biggest raises in many years. Ben Hovland | MPR News Go Deeper.

Gov. Tim Walz speaks with reporters on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at the Minnesota Capitol. He has called state lawmakers to a special session scheduled for Monday to finish the state budget.

In the crowded Abyssinia Event Center, a cultural center revitalized after the 2020 protest, city officials gathered to listen to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s State of the City Address. In his ...