State Rep. Kaohly Her pulled off a historic victory on Tuesday, defeating Mayor Melvin Carter to become the next leader of St ...

Kaohly Vang Her, a Lao refugee turned state representative, will be the first woman and first Hmong American to serve as St.

Minnesota state Rep. Kaohly Her is projected to win the St. Paul mayoral election, unseating two-term incumbent Melvin Carter ...

Her’s strongest support was in some of St. Paul’s highest-turnout wards. She trailed in first-choice votes but won after ranked-choice tabulation.

Between Aug. 4, when she officially entered the five-way mayor’s race, and Nov. 4, when she won it, Her engaged Carter and ...

The race was decided by ballots where neither Carter nor Her were the voter’s first choice — the first such outcome in a St.

Kaohly Her wants her term as St. Paul mayor to be different. Maybe not ideologically apart from outgoing Mayor Melvin Carter, whom she once worked for as policy director, but more connected, more in ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• No one should ever again underestimate St. Paul’s Mayor-elect Kaohly Her. That sounds obvious ...

Kaohly Her, 52, has been a state House member representing part of St. Paul since 2019. She is an immigrant and refugee who ...

The club of living former U.S. vice presidents shrank to five members Monday following the death of 84-year-old Republican Dick Cheney.