The Minnesota Reformer is an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to keeping Minnesotans informed and unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell.
An attempt to reform how Minnesota enforces transit fare and deals with a concerning rise in serious crime on trains and buses.
Minnesota, like much of the nation, has gone all-in on vaccinations as our main battle tactic in the fight against Covid.
More than 1,000 buildings were burned or damaged in Minneapolis in the days after George Floyd's murder.
A year after George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, his family returned Tuesday to Washington, D.C.
This bit was ripped from today's Daily Reformer newsletter.
Members of a U.S. House panel on Monday debated whether some state elections laws disenfranchise certain voters, including people of color.
Our elected officials get closer to making a final deal at the Legislature.
Bill Rodriguez was the first speaker at the first public hearing on cutting funding to the Minneapolis Police Department.
The nearly $1 billion that U.S. Rep. Garret Graves is seeking through Congress' revamped earmarks process isn't a typo.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be leading the prosecution against former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter.
The Rev. Dr. William Barber and Democratic members of Congress unveiled a resolution Wednesday calling for a “Third Reconstruction.”
Sandra Weise, owner of the Finnish Bistro Coffee & Cafe in St. Paul, recently announced that she would begin closing 4.5 hours early.
If plumbers spent as much time giving each other awards as journalists, the streets would be flooded with water spewing from unfixed pipes.
Former U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota.
The budget deal is a “numbers only” agreement, so legislators still have to develop detailed spending plans.
The U.S. House voted Wednesday 252-175 to give the go-ahead to the formation of an independent, bipartisan commission.
The state unemployment rate now stands at 4.1%, and weekly unemployment claims are trending downward.
In other times, a “masks off” announcement might have been celebrated.
On his first day on the job as acting city manager for Brooklyn Center, Reggie Edwards knew he needed help.
My mom turned to chiropractors for everything from my sister's colic to my gymnastics-trick-gone-wrong hip injury.