Minnesota

Minnesota's high court ordered the negotiations to resolve a funding dispute that's entangled a small piece of debt.

The firm announced a merger with Lindquist & Vennum LLP.

Southland School District administrators are working to form a new plan after voters soundly rejected a proposed $24.56 million bond issue.

Refunding deals were down substantially and new money volume also slipped.

MAPLETON, Minn. -- Leaders of Maple River Public Schools hope a new tax credit will make their citizens more willing to support a tax increase to build a new school for their students.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation was dropped from the single A category by Moody’s Investors Service.

About $1 million will go to service the city's street bond debt, leaving the Duluth with $2.8 million for actual work.

Residents of the Carlton School District sent a strong message Tuesday when 71 percent voted against a $23.6 million proposal to create a combined pre-K-12 school for Carlton students at the district's South Terrace site.

Gov. Mark Dayton's legislative veto was overturned by a lower court.

The debt would help finance a project to divert Red River floods away from Fargo, N.D. and Morehead, Minn.

Minnesota was removed from S&P Global Ratings’ CreditWatch after a threat posed to repayment of some appropriation-backed debt was resolved.

A budget feud between Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and the legislature's GOP majority doesn't pose an imminent threat to the state's high-grade ratings, said Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service.

A feud over tax relief between Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and the GOP may hurt a bond rating.

S&P Global Ratings has placed its 'AA+' rating on the State of Minnesota's general obligation debt on CreditWatch with negative implications

The Shell Rock River board of managers on Friday initiated the process for issuing an approximately $1.8 million bond that is expected to include an approximately $168,000 property tax levy.

Minnesota voters are shooting down school bond issues at the highest rate in years, with five out of six referendums rejected last week alone.

The merger of two Twin Cities area not-for-profit hospital systems is expected to close June 1.

Minnesota's governor and GOP lawmakers have yet to settle spending differences for a new budget.

Transportation bills now headed to negotiations in the state Capitol include increases in funding, but members of the Area Transportation Partnership for Southwest Minnesota are not optimistic that the region's needs will be met.

Minnesota’s Republican leaders laid out their cards on transportation spending this week, but they remain in conflict with Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal.