Nearing the end of his term as Minnesota governor, Mark Dayton is eyeing his legacy, rather than ambitious new policy initiatives. In his eighth and final State of the State address, delivered to ...

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton lately is all about an “emergency” funding plan for public schools running deficits these days. He’s on a bully-pulpit kick, urging Republican lawmakers to change ...

Mark Dayton in 2015. It’s a governor’s job to appoint judges in the state of Minnesota, and when Mark Dayton took over, he noticed a pattern: most of the finalists were white guys. It wasn’t ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton nears the end of eight years in office to cap a four-decade political career, he's content to take a back seat in the race to replace him.

Mark Dayton opened his last major political speech as governor of Minnesota with a joke — at his own expense. “Some people have suggested I conclude my speech now, to make certain I can walk ...

Republican House Speaker Kurt Daudt accused Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton of a "dereliction of duty." "He ought to have a command center set up 24/7 with a 1,000 people in trying to solve this ...

During his two terms in office, Gov. Mark Dayton has routinely pitched packages of state-backed construction projects that spend north of $1 billion, arguing more projects will put tens of ...

The fatal police shooting of Philando Castile is emerging as the latest test of Gov. Mark Dayton's administration as it publicly grapples with racial tensions and disparities around Minnesota.

Mark Dayton and leading Republican lawmakers. As the session wrapped up in late May, Dayton blasted Republicans as beholden to special interests, unfurling a litany of adjectives that included ...

Gubernatorial candidates: on left, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton. On right, top row: Republican challengers state Rep. Kurt Zellers, state Sen. Dave Thompson. On right ...

After Mark Dayton and Ana Orke reconnected two years ago — and made peace with their 41-year age difference — a romance blossomed: "The love just grew to mean more than the years that separate ...