The winners of Washington County’s second Name a Snowplow contest were announced Tuesday by the Washington County Department of Public Works. More than 2,400 people voted in the contest and the top two vote-getters were Sir Plows a lot with 680 votes and Land of 10,000 Flakes coming in a close second with 677 votes.

Minnesota leaders are reacting and offering their condolences after a mid-air collision​ between a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening.

Minnesota Democrats captured the state’s coveted Senate majority after a blowout win in the state’s special election for District 60. Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee Doron Clark won in a landslide, 90.91% to Republican Abigail Wolters’s 8.71%.

Oregon dropped in the polls after splitting games with Washington and Minnesota.

On Tuesday, Iowa Democrats notched an upset victory in a state Senate district that Donald Trump won by more than 20 points, and Minnesota Democrats retook their Senate majority in the statehouse. Meanwhile,

The FBI says it arrested a 21-year-old Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.

The Minnesota House began its third deadlocked week due to a Democratic boycott over a power struggle with House Republicans.

Democrats in the Minnesota House who have boycotted daily sessions are using tactics that lawmakers elsewhere have tried dozens of times in seeking to thwart their opponents

A former deputy with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office says a co-worker sexually harassed her while she was working undercover as “bait” with the East Metro Sex Trafficking Task Force. Isabella Curtis,

St. Paul International Airport to Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport have been canceled on Thursday after Wednesday night's tragic collision involving a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines commercial airliner over the Potomac River.

Multiple flights from Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport to Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport have been canceled on Thursday after Wednesday night's tragic collision involving a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines commercial airliner over the Potomac River.

All four Big Ten teams from the West face pivotal games this week at crucial points in their seasons. Oregon and UCLA, which meet tonight in L.A., both need a win to stay in the hunt for one of the double-byes awarded to the top four teams in the conference tournament.