Gov. Dayton has threatened to block bills that include one-time money for safety improvements and other uses.

Business owners say the recent allegations of fraud in a state program that helps low-income parents are overblown and xenophobic.

Last week state lawmakers approved a bipartisan measure that prohibits the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing court-ordered conservation measures in White Bear Lake and surrounding communities.

At session's end, it appears that money for capital improvements at the state's college and university systems came through, though not to the levels colleges wanted.

Ratcheting up pressure on the Russia investigation, the White House announced that top FBI and Justice Department officials have agreed to meet with congressional leaders and "review" highly classified information the lawmakers have been seeking on the handling of the probe.

Public school teachers across the country say they've been improperly hit with thousands of dollars in debt when paperwork errors turned their grants into loans that they're now supposed to pay back.

Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson faces up to two years in prison for concealing abuse after two altar boys approached him in the 1970s with allegations against a fellow priest.