At 8 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, joined The Current’s Morning Show to ...

Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy and House Speaker Lisa Demuth delivered speeches, while Sen. John Hoffman produced a video ...

Brooklyn Park voters will take to the polls on Sept. 16 to fill the vacant seat of Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was killed last month in a politically motivated assassination. Gov. Tim Walz on Friday ...

As the deadline to file for candidacy passed Tuesday afternoon, three Democrats and one Republican sought the mantle of representing the district long served by the late Rep. Melissa Hortman. Gov ...

Until Melissa Hortman was killed, the House was evenly divided 67-67. Republicans now hold a one-seat majority in the state House, while Democrats have the same advantage in the Senate.

3:35 a.m.: Brooklyn Park police arrive at the home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and encounter the gunman. They see him shoot the lawmaker’s husband, Mark Hortman, in the doorway.

During a meeting on Monday night, City Councilors discussed ideas of honoring Mark and Melissa Hortman but ultimately said any memorial would need to include input from their family.

A Hennepin County prosecutor and former Brooklyn Park City Council member are among those planning to run for the late Rep. Melissa Hortman’s Minnesota House seat as DFLers. Erickson Saye, who ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — A special election to fill the seat held by former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will be held Tuesday, Sept. 16, according to an order issued Friday by Gov. Tim Walz ...

PAUL — Two Brooklyn Park City Council members and a Hennepin County prosecutor have launched campaigns to fill former Rep. Melissa Hortman’s House seat 34B in a special election set for Sept. 16.

House Minority Leader Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, looks on during a pre-legislative session briefing for the media in the Minnesota State Senate Building in St. Paul on Feb. 13, 2018.