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Judge Natalie Hudson speaking during the announcement of her appointment to the Minnesota Supreme Court by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2015. It’s a governor’s job to appoint judges in the state of ...

Since early 2015, Dayton's core circle of advisers has grown to include Shawntera Hardy, who served as a deputy chief of staff. Dayton selected Hardy in April to head the state's jobs and economic ...

As Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton nears the end of eight years in office to cap a four-decade political career, he's content to take a back seat in the race to replace him. At least for now.

After a long campaign and millions of dollars, DFL candidate Mark Dayton garnered 49.73 percent of the state’s votes to win the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. Dayton beat incumbent Sen. Rod Grams and ...

Mark Dayton, at far left in the front row, wearing goalie pads, in a team photo of the Yale hockey team, 1966-67. He became an anti-Vietnam war activist at Yale, earning a spot on President ...

Minnesota's schools, its job hunters and the state's finances are better off than when he took office, Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday in his final State of the State speech, even as he laid out ...

Mark Dayton opened his last major political speech as governor of Minnesota with a joke — at his own expense. “Some people have suggested I conclude my speech now, to make certain I can walk ...

Speaker of the House Kurt Daudt said Wednesday that he's prepared to call for Gov. Mark Dayton's resignation for dereliction of duty over skyrocketing health care premiums.

After Mark Dayton and Ana Orke reconnected two years ago — and made peace with their 41-year age difference — a romance blossomed: "The love just grew to mean more than the years that separate us" ...

Daudt’s counterpart in the negotiations, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, started the process by saying he’d call the special session only after Daudt agreed to give him money for universal pre-K for 4 ...

Gubernatorial candidates: on left, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton. On right, top row: Republican challengers state Rep. Kurt Zellers, state Sen. Dave Thompson. On right ...