Minnesota’s sports owners might compete for fan attention, but they have found common ground in a much more divisive space: the state’s campaign for governor. The majority owners of the Minnesota Wild, Twins and Vikings have donated at least $71,000 to Democrat Amy Klobuchar’s campaign or groups supporting her. They gave nothing to Klobuchar’s Republican opponent, Lisa Demuth. The lack of ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Minnesota has four living former governors. With voters preparing to elect the state’s next governor on Tuesday, we invited each of them to offer public advice to the candidates seeking the job they once held. What are the hard-earned lessons of governing that only ...

As of Friday, nearly 729,000 Minnesotans had voted early in person or by mail, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State. Early voting for the Nov. 3 election started on Sept. 18.

Close races east of the Metro in Cottage Grove and south of the Metro in Shakopee are among the key suburban seats up for grabs.

Republicans and Democrats have poured millions of dollars into the race for southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District in the closing weeks of the campaign, a spending spree that some say indicates an increasingly tight contest. Since mid-October, Democrat Jake Johnson has benefited from more than $3 million in outside spending, including a $2.2 million investment this week in TV ads from ...

MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart talks to Jake Johnson, the Democratic nominee for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, on his campaign to flip a seat that Trump won by 12 points and the Republican incumbent won by 17 points in 2024.

It’s the final stretch of a hotly contested midterm election. Campaigns are crisscrossing Minnesota this weekend, and federal officials are raising the alarm about social services fraud in the state. Top officials from President Donald Trump’s administration painted Minnesota as an epicenter of fraud during a news conference in St. Cloud on Friday, days before the election. Fraud has been a ...

Eight black candidates in the home stretch of their gubernatorial campaigns in states across the country are vying for a win that would be historic, given there have been just five black governors, and only three elected, since the United States was established. Three of the 2026 candidates are Republican, mounting campaigns in Florida, Minnesota, […]