The state of Minnesota will head into 2022 with a record $7.7 billion projected budget surplus for the current two-year budget cycle, state finance officials announced last week. The eye-popping ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Two years after seeing a record-setting projected surplus of $17.5 billion in 2023, the Minnesota Legislature will be faced with much less of a fiscal cushion this ...

Minnesota Management and Budget announced that our state government will run a forecast budget surplus of $1.3 billion. At the end of the 2019 legislative special session, the state ...

Though Iowa has a budget surplus of nearly $2 billion, forecasters project a revenue decline of about $1 billion over the next two years. Before Minnesota or Iowa attained statehood (1858 and 1846 ...

A Minnesota senator is proposing reversing a law put in effect last year that banned the consumption of nuisance beavers in ...

This fall, all lakes in the three-county area, including both Prior and Spring lakes, received a surplus of walleye fingerlings, roughly the size of a human adult finger, supplied by the Minnesota ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty today announced a plan to use the remaining $155 million in reserve funds and trim $271.4 million in state expenditures to balance the state’s budget for the current fiscal year.

A Republican Iowa senator wants to "make Minnesota Iowa again" by introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine southern Minnesota counties.

Bousselot further explained how the purchase would make sense for both states due to Iowa's budget surplus, a foreseeable budget deficit in Minnesota and the conservative politics of the counties ...