It was a moment of pure horror for our state, but some Minnesotans want to turn a tragedy into a testament. Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated ...

Vance Boelter, the man charged with stalking, shooting, and killing House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, is due to be arraigned in federal court on Thursday.

Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety announced a list of new Capitol Security measures this week, hoping to increase safety within the walls of the Capitol Building.

Getting into the state Capitol looks a lot different as of Wednesday. Capitol security has tightened in response to the ...

Visitors and those who work at the Minnesota Capitol will encounter new security measures beginning Wednesday.

The state senator, who survived an attempted assassination in June, told his colleagues that "we can't let the evil of the night win." ...

An interesting thing about your book is how you blend your role as a scientist with your role as a policymaker. You write about it not in a dry, college textbook-y way, but as a person, and as a ...

There will now be two entrances including at the main south entrance at the top of the Capitol steps during regular business hours. Two ground-level accessible doors beneath the steps will also be ...

Hennepin County Commissioner Heather Edelson, a former state lawmaker, said public officials’ homes should be off limits in ...

The State Patrol rolled out a mass notification system for lawmakers in 2017, but it wasn’t used the morning that two lawmakers and their spouses were targeted by a gunman.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher blasted state capitol security for not quickly sending a mass alert to Minnesota lawmakers ...

The two entrances that will be open during regular business hours are a total of four doors — the main south entrance at the ...