The controversial new Minnesota Senate Office Building at the State Capitol is nearing completion. Republicans made the $90 million project an example of wasteful spending in the 2014 campaign.

The new Minnesota Senate Office Building opened Monday with little fanfare. While the St. Paul building has been controversial since its inception, the facility just north of the Capitol opened in ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Senate building opened Monday with lots of Minnesota materials, put up mostly by Minnesota workers, and designed to work in concert with its neighbor across the street ...

The new four-story Minnesota Senate Building is rising up quickly in the shadow of the State Capitol. About 10 months after site work began, the building is more than 60 percent complete and on ...

PAUL -- The Minnesota Senate building opened Monday with lots of Minnesota materials, put up mostly by Minnesota workers, and designed to work in concert with its neighbor across the street, ...

Just weeks before the new Minnesota Senate Office Building is scheduled to open, some senators may not want to move in. The $90-million structure behind the State Capitol will be ready in January ...

“We were sensitive to the criticisms that it was going to be a ‘luxury office building,’” said project manager Vic Thorstenson. Even so, the project remains political.

The Minnesota Senate Building project team benefited from a “special session” of team members co-locating near the site.

That seems to be the MN GOP modus operandi — MNsure, Medicaid, Senate Office Building, Transportation, Education — the same pattern presents itself.

PAUL -- A Minnesota Senate office building apparently has a green light for construction starting this summer. Former state Rep. Jim Knoblach, R-St. Cloud, had sued to stop the building, ...

Quick facts about the new Minnesota Senate Office Building: — At 293,000 square feet, includes offices for all 67 senators. Republicans won’t move in until late 2016.