politics

Minnesota Speaker of the House Kurt Daudt called a spike in health insurance premiums a "full-blown crisis" Wednesday during a roundtable on the topic in Red Wing. Earlier that day, Gov. Mark Dayton identified the projected 50 to 67 percent increases in health insurance premiums...

ST. PAUL — Republican Donald Trump will remain as an option for Minnesota voters, the state Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Wholly dismissing the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballots, the court said the time is too tight to...

With three candidates vying for the Red Wing City Council seat representing Ward 2, voters in the primary election Aug. 9 will select between John Becker, Greg Boek and Adam Matthew Gettings. Two then will advance to the city’s general election Tuesday Nov. 8. Becker, who moved...

The race for Red Wing Mayor, which started with six candidates by the end of the filing period Tuesday, narrowed to four Wednesday following the withdrawal of candidates Joe Blank and Dawn Courtier. Both Blank and Courtier said they had filed out of concern for the seeming shortage...

With several last-minute filings, candidates for Red Wing city offices set the stage for a busy local primary election. Voters will cast their ballots in three primary races Aug. 9 to narrow each seat down to two candidates: Mayor — The six candidates are Akheem Brown, Joseph W....

DULUTH, Minn. -- A brief moment of parliamentary rebellion by some Minnesota Republicans against Donald Trump ended in failure Friday ahead of the state party's convention at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.

Red Wing School Board will have four seats up for election this fall. Board clerk Bethany Borgschatz said filing opens for the school district Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 16 with notices for filing coming in mid-July.

The candidate filing window for 2016 elections began Tuesday and will remain open until 5 p.m. Tuesday May 31. Two candidates had filed for Red Wing City Council by press time Tuesday: Kim Beise, who recently won the special election for Ward 1 and is seeking to retain the seat;...

John Howe announced Tuesday that he will run in the Republican primary for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District seat. Jason Lewis, best known as a talk show host, won the GOP endorsement. Howe said that as a former Red Wing mayor and state senator he is the sole candidate with...

Local activist Evan Brown will run for the combined Ward 3 and 4 seat on Red Wing City Council. The current chair of Red Wing’s Sustainability Commission and senior 3D designer for Monster Games, Brown served on the Red Wing Charter Commission for eight years and worked with riverfront...

Paul Drotos is running for the District 5 seat on Goodhue County Board, which includes Wards 3 and 4 in Red Wing, as well as Wacouta. In his announcement Friday, Drotos noted that he nearly won theseat four years ago, trailing by 112 votes out of over 4,000 ballots cast. He called...

The candidate filing period for most public offices in Minnesota in 2016 opens Tuesday May 17 and runs until May 31. Candidates for federal, state, county and some local offices must file to have their names appear on ballots. Filing requirements vary depending on the office, whether...

After receiving a recommendation from Port Authority to reject a proposal from former council member Jason Sebion and business partner Bill McKinley for an indoor gun range in the former Central Research Laboratories, City Council members Monday sent the proposal back to Port.