Category Archives: Politics

(KNSI) - The House and Senate have voted to end the state's peacetime emergency on July 1st. An 11th hour deal struck late Tuesday night with the United States Department of Agriculture will protect m...

(KNSI) - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Friday announced to lawmakers that he would end the emergency powers he assumed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The powers allowed him to rule by ...

(KNSI) - As the Minnesota Legislature makes its way through the leftover budget work in its special session this week, the House of Representatives passed the Transportation Budget Bill Wednesday. The...

ST. PAUL (KDLM) - Governor Walz extended his Peacetime Emergency Powers for another 30 days on Monday and will likely extend them through August. Throughout the last 16 months Republicans and even som...

Legislative leaders spent the weekend trying to hash out the last disagreements over major budget bills ahead of the special legislative session set to being today. Headed into the weekend Governor Ti...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - The Becker County Commissioners have approved adding an additional full-time dispatcher after a group of Fire Chiefs in Becker County voiced concerns last month about the staffi...

(KNSI) - Minnesota's Governor doesn't buy claims from business owners that enhanced and extended unemployment benefits keep workers from getting back to work. During a press conference last week, Gove...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen is backing a court action to stop COVID-19 vaccinations for 12-to-16-year-olds that, among other things, compares the inocul...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Representative Paul Marquart is encouraged by Governor Walz' plan to reduce COVID-19 restrictions in Minnesota. Last week, Walz announced plans to reduce restrictions in the sta...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Sen. Tina Smith visited Detroit Lakes and Perham on Saturday as part of a two-day tour of rural Minnesota. Smith toured the Boys and Girls Club and businesses in downtown Detroi...