News summary at week’s end: December 13, 2025
GOVERNANCE: Governor names ex-judge to fight fraud GOVERNANCE: Walz asks brutish ICE excesses be [...]
GOVERNANCE: Governor names ex-judge to fight fraud GOVERNANCE: Walz asks brutish ICE excesses be [...]
POLITICS: Winona County solon aspires to state Senate POLITICS: Drazkowski: Count me out of [...]
GOVERNANCE: Trump’s new Minnesota anti-immigrant purge nets 12 GOVERNANCE: An unhinged Trump in angry [...]
GOVERNANCE: Portrait of an anti-Somali ICE raid GOVERNANCE: Minneapolis mayor on deportation raids: Not [...]
GOVERNANCE: Finstad on aide’s travel expenses: All routine ACCIDENT: Rollover on Interstate 94 claims [...]
GOVERNANCE: Finstad aide’s travel expenses exceed norms GOVERNANCE: Finstad: Local Somalis financing global terrorism [...]
POLITICS: Marquette poll: Republicans, Trump in trouble GOVERNMENT: Trump to Minnesota Somalis: Go back [...]
GOVERNANCE: What now? City nixes plan for homeless shelter GOVERNANCE: How they voted: On [...]
GOVERANCE: Trump pardons ex-Wisconsin GOP bigwigs GOVERNANCE: Craig: Congress has misread public preferences GOVERNANCE: [...]
GOVERNANCE: How they voted: On federal shutdown /3 GOVERNANCE: How they voted: On federal [...]
RIVER: River cruise fleet aims at new markets CRIME: Murder prosecutors deny errors in [...]
GOVERNANCE: SNAP food aid not yet in pipeline GOVERNANCE: Ellison senses High Court doubts [...]
NUTRITION CRISIS: Winona foodbank on standby to fill void Second U.S. judge [...]
GOVERNANCE: Walz assigns $4 million for foodbank crisis GOVERNANCE: Ellison: Trump “cruel” for shelving [...]
GOVERNANCE: Noem: Get ready, Minnesota, for more federal presence GOVERNANCE: Foodbanks ill-equipped for federal [...]
POLITICS: Ellison goes for third term as attorney general POLITICS: U.S. Senate: Craig leads [...]
GOVERNANCE: Co-exitence: Merriment amid anti-Trump messaging GOVERNANCE: Farmer or not, Finstad sticks with Trump [...]
GOVERNANCE: Desperate soybean farmers: “Buy U.S.” GOVERNANCE: Walz hits road, casts blame for soybean [...]
GOVERNANCE: Fourth Winona protest coming against Trump GOVERNANCE: Gun law update: Walz sems to [...]
SCIENCE: WSU discovery: Dinosaur bones still with skin GOVERNANCE: Federal shutdown update: Minnesota on [...]
GOVERNANCE: Federal shutdown update: Minnesota on edge GOVERNANCE: How they voted: On reopening government [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Environmentalists: Water-mining watchdog needed TRIBAL: Dakota gathering in Winona for healing, unity CRIME: [...]
GOVERNANCE: Trump honors soldiers for 1890 Indian massacre GOVERNANCE: Kimmel’s ABC comeback reached record [...]
50th anniversary. The giant ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 sailors were lost in [...]
RIVER: Army Corps to develop hydroelectric power data GOVERNANCE: Protesters at secret Finstad constituent [...]
COMMERCE: Fastenal curbs but doesn’t end China imports AGRICULTURE: Fully tasseled. ready to harvest [...]
COMMERCE: Fastenal opens high-tech Utah transfer site COMMERCE: Grocery giant Schnucks buys Festival Foods [...]
RIVER: Huge dredging planned in Mississippi Pool 3 TRAFFIC: Traffic crash fatal in central [...]
GOVERNANCE: Rocky road ahead on Minnesota gun reform GOVERNANCE: Town Board OKs problematic fertilizer [...]
POLITICS: Van Orden’s half-true tale at photo-opp CRIME: Cops extract admission for Flanagan death [...]
GOVERNANCE: GOP slams Walz but willing to talk gun control GOVERNANCE: Status report on [...]
REMEMBRANCE: Death claims retired Winona Catholic bishop MASS SHOOTING: Shooter took lives of 10- [...]
MASS SHOOTING: Mayor: “Let’s not lose our sense of humanity” MASS SHOOTING: Church school shooter [...]
COLLEGES: Pulverizing Lourdes Hall, CST’s pride, to dust COLLEGES: Mark Street quietude after WSU [...]
COLLEGES: Southeast College president retiring POLITCS: Walz ponders post-governorship life ECONOMY: Minnesota job status [...]
CRIME: Bail at $500,000 for Elba shoot ‘em up CRIME: Next for Winona man [...]
CRIME: Court papers chronicle torture of Winona child CRIME: Elba woman arrested for firearm [...]
GOVERNANCE: Winona workshops planned on resisting Trump GOVERNANCE: Back to Square One to rebadge [...]
POLITICS: Wilson is back, this time for Winona House seat POLITICS: Minnesota lesson: Keep [...]
RIVER: Army Corps eyes fixing Johnson Island ecosystem POLICING: Facebook quiet on pop-up beer [...]
AVIATION: Turbulence jolts Delta flight: 288 aboard, 25 injured COLLEGES: Cotter tries calming protest [...]
POLITICS: Rodriguez first out of gate for Wisconsin governor POLITICS: Evers: No to third [...]
CRIME: Missing LaCrosse woman found dead downriver CRIME: Teen crochet prodigy jailed for rape, [...]
GOVERNANCE: Despite taunting, rally true to John Lewis legacy GOVERNANCE: How they voted: On [...]
GOVERNANCE: Trump budget wipes out 60 state nutrition jobs GIVERNANCE: Windom Park rally to [...]
RESCUE: Hot-shot Minnesota rescuers to Guadalupe disaster RESCUE: Blow by blow: The rescue at [...]
CRIME: If true: Major, major Minnesota meth bust CRIME: Winona man’s bail at $1 [...]
CRIME: Woman fingers ex-boyfriend for Holmen murder CRIME: Mom: Son feared she ratted, so [...]
HEROES: I-90 rest stop drama: Driver rescued as car sinks GOVERNANCE: Finstad on trans-gender [...]
JOURNALISM: Lee pays $9.5 million in subscriber data case CRIME: Charges: Child sexual abuse [...]
Pristine. Never mined. Today a national park but for only hardy hikers and campers. [...]
COLLEGES: WSU’s forlorn Lourdes venture: Final chapter COMMERCE: Rural estate Weber Springs sells for [...]
CRIME: Wabasha woman fatally bludgeoned, maybe shot CRIME: $5 million bail in Minnesota assassinations [...]
CRIME: Massive Minnesota manhunt for assassin CRIME: Mega-meth discovery leads to major drug raids [...]
ACCIDENT: Train hits man, dog at Dam 5A; both die TRANSPORTATION: Railfans rejoice: Borealis [...]
GOVERNANCE: Walz: Skids are greased to OK new state budget GOVERNANCE: Aviation crisis: RST [...]
SCHOOLS: Cotter buys, to raze WSU’s Lourdes dorm COLLEGES: WSU looks to new veep [...]
SCHOOLS: Cotter buys, to raze WSU’s Lourdes dorm GOVERNANCE: Trump sees sanctuary sites all [...]
FAITH: Catholic Diocese to shutter East End church ECONOMY: Although stabilizing, Fastenal stock still [...]
GOVERNANCE: How they voted: Trump budget /4 GOVERNANCE: Planned Parenthood shutters four Minnesota clinics [...]