Minnesota Legislature

Voters in the St. Cloud, Minnesota area are looking at competitive contests for a US House seat and several Minnesota legislative districts. Local coverage lays out the candidates and districts at stake, with attention on how these races could shape both congressional balance and control of the state Legislature.

Detroit Lakes has joined an effort to restrict girls' sports teams in Minnesota to athletes assigned female at birth. The move places the lakes-area school district alongside other communities supporting limits on transgender athletes' participation in women's and girls' competition, an issue that continues to divide school boards, state legislatures and sports associations across the United States.