Motorists traveling Highway 99 bridge at St. Peter should be alert for lane restrictions Oct. 4-5
Motorists traveling on the Highway 99 Minnesota River bridge at St. Peter should be alert for lane restrictions Oct. 4-5 as crews make repairs to the bridge, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Traffic will be reduced to one [...]
Senator Smith pushes for insurance companies to cover mental health
Senator Tina Smith is advancing a bill that would enforce insurance companies to cover mental health services. She said this bill dates back to when Senator Paul Wellstone first made the bill to require insurance companies to cover the services [...]
Mankato Declares Sept. 30 ‘ADM Day’ in Honor of Company’s 120th Anniversary
Mankato, Minn., Sept. 29, 2022—In recognition of the global agribusiness and nutrition company’s 120th anniversary, Major Najwa Massad has formally declared this Sept. 30 "ADM Day" in Mankato. ADM — previously known as Archer Daniels Midland Company — has long [...]
Repairs to Highway 99 bridge at St. Peter scheduled Oct. 4-5
Motorists traveling on the Highway 99 Minnesota River bridge at St. Peter should be alert for lane restrictions Oct. 4-5 as crews make repairs to the bridge, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Traffic will be reduced to one [...]
3,742 Traffic Stops Made During Minnesota State Patrol’s Project 20(22)
The Minnesota State Patrol is pleased with the results of Project 20-22 which was conducted over six weekends from May through September. Lieutenant Gordon Shank says officers across the state made more than 37-hundred traffic stops: "Over two-thousand-700 of those [...]
Gov Walz: anger over Feeding Our Future scam aimed at suspects, not judge
Governor Tim Walz is responding after a week's worth of calls from state Republican leaders, including his opponent in the governor's race Scott Jensen, for an investigation into the Walz administration's handling of the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud [...]
American Red Cross says help is on the way amid Hurricane Ian
Volunteers from Minnesota and around the country are mobilizing help to people in areas impacted by Hurricane Ian. The American Red Cross's Sue Thesenga says here at home... "You can help people by donating to the American Red Cross disaster [...]
Drought stress evident this harvest
Drought stress is evident as an organic farmer in southwest Minnesota begins soybean harvest. Carolyn Olson of Cottonwood says her area has been in moderate to severe drought all summer and crops reflect that. "We don’t have an accurate (yield) [...]
Author Allen Eskens Speaking At Vine
Local author, Allen Eskens, will present at the VINE Adult Community Center on Thursday, October 6 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm. Eskens is the bestselling author of “The Life We Bury,” “The Guise of Another,” “The Heavens May Fall,” [...]