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

Thousands lined up at the Minnesota State Capitol on Friday to pay their respects to the late Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman ...

Rep. Hortman, who served a six-year stint as House Speaker, was a longtime leader of the DFL caucus and one of Minnesota's most influential politicians.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the ...

Hortman led House Democrats through some of the most difficult and consequential political times in recent Minnesota history.

Among Representative Melissa Hortman’s final votes in the Minnesota legislature was one she agonized over. Lawmakers in the evenly split chamber had been in a bitter standoff over a Republican ...

Hortman, who was fatally shot early Saturday, was known as a champion of deeply progressive causes but also someone willing ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 1998, a young attorney named Melissa Hortman made her first run for public office.

Melissa Hortman and husband Mark will be laid to rest on Saturday at the ... Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer praised Hortman’s ... DFL party chair Richard Carlbom described her as a ...

The political assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman was a shock to the people of the state and the country.

Lawmakers and officials, both local and national, are issuing statements expressing shock and outrage over the shooting deaths​ of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman​ and her husband.