With one week remaining before the Nov. 5 elections, major candidates in the metro area and statewide races have suspended campaign activities in the wake of Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone's death Friday,...

D By Libby George and Andrew Pritchard FL Party chairman Mike Erlandson said Sunday morning that the full DFL State Central Committee will meet Tuesday to choose a successor to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone,...

The mourning for Sen. Paul Wellstone and those killed in Friday's plane crash has just begun, but political scientists and analysts are weighing the consequences of his death on Minnesota's political landscape,...

F By Libby George and K.C. Howard lags at the State Capitol and Capitol Hill flew half-staff Friday as political officials mourned the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle,...

W By Judy Sarasohn The Washington Post ASHINGTON - First the buzzword was bipartisanship: Lobby shops and law firms with government affairs practices whose identities were too tied up with one political...

W By Dana Milbank The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The Bush administration late Thursday announced a budget deficit of $159 billion for the fiscal year just ended, confirming that the federal government...

Surrounded by students and a throng of orange-clad supporters, Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tim Penny and running mate Martha Robertson campaigned in Willey Hall on Wednesday. "We're just...

In an effort to get students to vote for U.S. Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia were on campus Tuesday speaking to students. "The reaction of students has just been incredible,"...

Independence Party candidate Tim Penny was the best debater in Monday's televised gubernatorial debate, according to a panel of debate coaches assembled by the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association. Coaches...