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

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris shared an emotional moment while attending the funeral service of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman ...

The Minnesota Republican Party has hit out at protesters picketing their state headquarters in Edina on Monday to accuse it of inflaming political violence and hatred with irresponsible rhetoric ...

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

The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.

Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal ...

Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were ...

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

CLAY MASTERS: It took a couple of tries for Melissa Hortman to get elected to the Minnesota legislature. But in 2004, the attorney won a seat in the state House, defeating a Republican by two ...