The primary for the special election to fill the seat held by Rep. Melissa Hortman will be held on Tuesday. Rep. Hortman and ...

At 8 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, joined The Current’s Morning Show to ...

As the deadline to file for candidacy passed Tuesday afternoon, three Democrats and one Republican sought the mantle of representing the district long served by the late Rep. Melissa Hortman. Gov ...

Brooklyn Park voters will vote to fill the vacant seat of Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was killed last month in a politically motivated assassination.

Federal grand jury indicts man accused of killing Rep. Melissa Hortman Officials provided more details about what happened that night and the contents of a letter they say Vance Boelter left behind ...

No Republican candidates have announced for the seat yet. Hortman, who was among the most influential Minnesota elected officials in the past decade, served as House Speaker from 2019 to 2024.

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Melissa and Mark Hortman were killed. The shootings commenced a two-day manhunt that authorities have described as the largest in state history. Boelter tried to kill Hoffmans' daughter ...

Police tape blocks off the home of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman, June 15, 2025, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Have we normalized political violence? It too quickly fades from memory.

Prospective candidates can file to run for office in House District 34B — the seat left vacant by the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman — until 5 p.m. Tuesday.

But law enforcement didn’t capture the suspect, Vance Boelter, in time to prevent the murders of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their dog Gilbert. And, while the suspect ...