News summary at mid-week: November 22, 2023
COMMERCE: Daleys again lose bid to expand Lewiston dairy herd CRIME: Fravel murder trial: [...]
News summary at week’s end: November 18, 2023
KAMIKAZE HATE: Nazis march in downtown Madison, taunt Jews ECONOMY: Minnesota workforce reaches record [...]
News summary at mid-week: November 15, 2023
ENVIRONMENT: Archer fells cougar in Wisconsin: “Either it or me” CRIME: 14 indictments for [...]
News summary at week’s end: November 11, 2023
ENVIRONMENT: Feds get serious, order Minnesota to fix tainted water ENVIRONMENT: Right-wingers pile on [...]
News summary at mid-week: November 8, 2023
CRIME: Arsonist sets fire outside historic Winona library HEALTH: Crowded helipad on Winona hospital [...]
News summary at week’s end: November 4, 2023
COMMERCE: Imagine this: Goodview as a global jerky epicenter SCHOOLS: Math teacher-coach: Winona Schools [...]
Remember when: A hanged man’s ghost stlll roams
HOUSTON, Minn. – In a remote and creepy crevice in the Root River bluffs, [...]
News summary at week’s end: October 28, 2023
POLITICS: Doerr’s qualifications for office look muzzy POLITICS: Phillips launches White House campaign POLITICS: [...]
News summary at mid-week: October 25, 2023
GOVERNANCE: Van Orden on lone-wolf mission to Israel GOVERNANCE: County Board OKs cap on [...]
Week’s summary: Ending October 21, 2023
WAR: Hamas carnage claims former St. Paul teacher COMMERCE: Kwik Trip: Recovery progressing on [...]
Remember when: Huge picnics at Farmers Park
1925 Farm Bureau picnic. The 1920s were prosperous for Winona County farmers. They drove [...]
Week’s summary: Ending October 14, 2023
CRIME: Officers wounded in drug raid recovering CRIME: Intruder tased, tackled, cuffed after break-in [...]
Week’s summary: Ending October 7, 2023
COMMERCE: Company pulls plug on Spring Grove factory COMMERCE: Hormel, union reach tentative accord ENVIRONMENT: [...]
Remember when: 1911 Bay State Milling fire
WINONA Minn. – On July 28, 1911, just after the night shift had just [...]
Week’s summary: Ending September 30, 2023
COLLEGES: WSU’s enrollment close to steadying itself COLLEGES: WSU outcome data ranks high in [...]
Week’s summary: Ending September 16, 2023
SCHOOLS: Lost Winona school bus: Bad judgments compounded WNVIRONMENT: Plan scuttled for Lewiston biogas [...]
Week’s summary: Ending September 9, 2023
SCHOOLS: Fifth-grader with knife: “I’ll stab him to death” SCHOOLS: More buses than drivers: [...]
Week’s summary: Ending September 2, 2023
ENVIRONMENT: Drought update: Absolute fire ban in Olmsted County ENVIRONMENT: Drought tightens grip on [...]
Week’s summary: Ending August 26, 2023
ENVIRONMENT: State re-licenses Monticello nuclear storage area ENVIRONMENT: 102 degrees matches Winona record WILDLIFE: [...]
Week’s summary: Ending August 19, 2023
CRIME: Winona ghost gun saga: Nobody’s talking WILDLIFE: How busy this rattlesnake season? Expert: [...]
Week’s summary: Ending August 12, 2023
COMMERCE: Developers offer peek at riverfront hotel COMMERCE: Port Authority OKs funds for Levee [...]
Week’s summary: Ending August 5, 2023
POLITICS: If elected Spitzer vows to follow constituents’ will POLITICS: Van Orden: Only minor [...]
Week’s summary: Ending July 29, 2023
GOVERNANCE: New case on herd limits: Wrongful bias? Or democracy? POLITICS: His side on [...]
Week’s summary: Ending July 22, 2023
GOVERNANCE: City reclaiming blighted railyard at Levee Park GOVERNANCE: Another $1 million for Masonic [...]
Almanac: Pricing online news
Which business model works for you? Winona Daily News: $26 a month St. Paul [...]
Week’s summary: Ending July 15, 2023
RIVER: Feud over: Army Corps cedes silt disposal to Wabasha RIVER: River news: First [...]
Week’s summary: Ending July 8, 2023
POLITICS: QAnon cult leader fatally hurt at motocross track POLITICS: St. Cloud legislator charged [...]
Week’s summary: Ending July 1, 2023
GOVERNANCE: Voters to decide on sales tax hike for new jail COLLEGES: Higher-ed consensus: [...]
Week’s summary: Ending June 24, 2023
GOVERNANCE: Masterpiece Hall wins final green light GOVERNANCE: A hotel on the Winona Levee? [...]
Week’s summary: Ending June 17, 2023
MADDI UPDATE: Adam Fravel’s own account: The day Maddi [...]
ALMANAC: Homicides in Winona
WINONA, Minn. – The murder of Maddi Kingsbury in March was the 19th in [...]
Week’s summary: Ending June 10, 2023
MADDI UPDATE: Kingsley autopsy finds grisly details on death RELATED NEWS: Bail [...]
Week’s summary: Ending June 3, 2023
PUBLIC SAFETY: Rochester condo evacuated: Collapse feared SCHOOLS: St. Charles principal to take helm [...]
Week’s summary: Ending May 27, 2023
ENDURANCE: Canoeists set record paddling whole Mississippi length GOVERNANCE: Minnesota joins national gun-limiting trend [...]
Week’s summary: Ending May 20, 2023
MADDI UPDATE: Kingsbury custody issue: Blacked-out documents GOVERNANCE: Pair of Minnesota gun-limit laws on [...]
Almanac: Scott Olson legacy at WSU
At Winona State Olson struggled with year after year of enrollment losses – down [...]
Week’s summary: Ending May 6, 2023
GOVERNANCE: Mayo's $5 billion ultimatum: Our way or no way GOVERNANCE: How they voted: [...]
Week’s summary: Ending April 29, 2023
FLOOD: Mississippi crests at Winona, now slowly receding MADDI: Public invited to lakeside vigil [...]
Almanac: Michele Bachmann and WSU
Winona State University ended the custom of a commencement speaker in 2010. The tradition [...]
Almanac: Winona’s 1965 flood to remember
Water, water everywhere. The squiggly lines mark seven breaches that let the flood waters [...]