Melissa Hortman's rise was notable for steady progression up the ranks built in large part on an ability to forge ...

The Minnesota Republican Party has hit out at protesters picketing their state headquarters in Edina on Monday to accuse it of inflaming political violence and hatred with irresponsible rhetoric ...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris shared an emotional moment while attending the funeral service of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman ...

Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal ...

Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were ...

Their reason was to push back, they said, on violence and hate in light of the assassination of former speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.

The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.