"Minnesota counties with names like Hennepin, Ramsey, Stearns, Todd, Sibley, Wright, Sherburne and Swift, for example, represent just a few of the 52 counties named after men between 1849 and 1923 ...

What is the state of our state’s 87 counties? The word that most resonates with me when I contemplate this is “resolute.” Counties are resolute in our mission to serve. Minnesota’s ...

A Republican senator hopes to "make Minnesota Iowa again" after introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine southern Minnesota counties. Sen. Mike Bousselot, R-Ankeny, Iowa, proposed the ...

Michael Bousselot said he will propose a bill in the legislature to buy "the bottom nine counties of Minnesota" — that would be Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Mower ...

Minnesota municipalities receive $44 million annually in taxes, and private landowners receive nearly $41 million in lease payments from wind and solar companies. That has enabled counties to ...