Minnesota minimum wage inches up
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A cost-of-living adjustment boosted the Minnesota minimum wage a trifle [...]
Kwik Trip at milestone: 800 stores
HOLMEN, Wis. – Thursday at 5 a.m. is a magic moment of sorts for [...]
PolyMet copper mine hits new legal obstacle
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota appellate judge OK’d a case by a wilderness [...]
Severson family sells bulk of petro business
WINONA, Minn. – Most of the Severson Oil Company is being sold after 40 [...]
Cheer albeit no beer at downtown biergarten
Peter’s Biergarten. With classic Third Street storefronts as bookends, the sidewalk beer garden retreat [...]
No Covid shot? No test? Let us show you out
MINNEAPOLIS –The Fair State Brewery taproom has gone where few merchants have. Demonstrating a [...]
Economists’ crystal ball: Happy days here again
ST. PAUL, Minn. – When Minnesota legislators convene in January, they will have the [...]
Fastenal begins populating riverfront offices
WINONA, Minn. – The construction company that built the new Fastenal office building on [...]
Next Daley move: “All cards on table”
LEWISTON, Minn. – The Daley dairy family has been to the county, to the [...]
Sonnentags give $70 million for events center
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — A $70 million gift from two University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire [...]
Ham, pepperoni recalled for fear of taint
ST.CLAIR SHORES, Mich. – About 234,000 pounds of fully cooked ham and pepperoni products [...]
Farm subsidies to 534 Winona County farms
WASHINGTON – Federal farm subsidies went to 534 Winona County famers in 2020, according [...]
Beginning to look like Christmas in Galesville
GALESVILLE, Wis. – Mild afternoon flurries were precursor to a forecast one-inch coating overnight [...]
Attorney defends Daley motives for variance bid
WINONA, Minn. – The attorney for Daley Farms of Lewiston faulted the county for [...]
Minnesota easily dwarfs other turkey producers
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Chances are that your Thanksgiving turkey originated Minnesota, the state [...]
Bank adds rural area investment adviser
WINONA, Minn. – A Houston financial adviser with the Edward Jones agency, Mark Swenson, [...]
Kwik Trip: No more pump-then-pay fueling
LACROSSE, Wis. – The rules are changing at Kwik Trip, the major purveyor of [...]
Nonprofits, listen up: Free radio airtime
WINONA, Minn. – The owner of KWNO and sibling Winona radio stations, Leighton Broadcasting, [...]
Daley expansion critics go door to door
LEWISTON, Minn. – Opponents of Daley Farm’s proposal to triple its dairy herd knocked [...]
Newspaper hikes rates: Less costs more
WINONA Minn. – The Winona Daily News informed online subscribers of a walloping 56.5% [...]
Biden to Minnesota to talk up construction jobs
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden plans to tout his $1 trillion infrastructure plan in [...]
Double-stack containers aiding shortages crisis
ALMA, Wis. – Two-mile long unit trains of trans-Pacific cargo are rumbling through Alma [...]
Farm mag expands to more levels, also frequency
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota AgMag, a farming magazine for school kids, is celebrating [...]
“Flash robbers” descend on busy BestBuy store
BURNSVILLE, Minn. – Like flash crowds of a decade ago, 20 to 30 people [...]
Mexico gives green semaphore to rail merger
MEXICO CITY, Mexico – As expected, the Canadian Pacific and the Kansas City Southern [...]
Turkey growers smiling all the way to the bank
FARGO, N.D. – A livestock marketing economist, Tim Petry at North Dakota State University, [...]
Chamber names Watlow Business of Year
Watlow was named 2021 Business of the Year by the Winona Chamber of Commerce. [...]
Lee news chain resists hedge fund take-over
DAVENPORT, Iowa – The Lee newspaper chain, which owns dailies in LaCrosse, Winona and [...]
Alden hedge fund moves in on Lee chain
NEW YORK – The secretive hedge fund Alden Global Capital launched a hostile take-over [...]
Guitarist Munson playing at Art Center
WINONA, Minn. – Country and blues strummer Mike Munson returns to the Winona Arts [...]
Downtown holiday tree up, draped and lit
WINONA, Minn. – Downtown merchants and townspeople mingled at the ceremonial lighting of the [...]
Fire chief: New rail traffic manageable
WINONA, Minn. – A growth in train traffic through Winona as a result of [...]
KROC mural: Keep it? Wipe it over?
ROCHESTER Minn. – The radio conglomerate that owns radio station KROC is making a [...]
Legislators snubbed on Caledonia jobs plea
CALEDONIA, Minn. – Two Republican legislators, both up for re-election, issued a new joint [...]
Army Corps plans tow-haul rail fixes at locks
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled major repairs at [...]
28 to 30 units seen in Exchange conversion
WINONA, Minn. – Plans are firming up for the boutique hotel envisioned for the [...]
Target to end river shipping: November 29
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Depending on weather, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to [...]
Railroad exec: Major CP rebranding ahead
WINONA, Minn. – Since the Canadian Pacific phased out the name Soo Line for [...]
Army Corps hires trucks to move Homer muck
ST. PAUL, Minn. –Next week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin trucking [...]
Old-to-new Winona hotel deal a Northfield partnership
WINONA, Minn. – The parties that plan to convert the historic Exchange Building into [...]
Ashley, Kwik Tip cited for environmentalism
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce association included Ashley Furniture of Arcadia [...]
Lawsuit filed over Empire Builder fatality
FAIRVIEW HEUGHTS, Ill. – An Illinois woman sued Amtrak and the Burlington Northern Santa [...]
State rolling in unexpected revenue
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Tax collections exceeded expectations for the year’s third quarter, the [...]
Dividends up for Merchants Bank shareholders
WINONA, Minn. – Merchants Financial Group announced that its third-quarter earnings were strong and [...]
R.I.P.: Christine Wetzel
WHITEHALL, Wis.. – Christine Catherine Wetzel, 50, of Whitehall, died after life-long illness of [...]
River cruise boats ‘acoming / 5
WINONA, Minn. – Scheduled ports of call: > November 3: American Melody, 1-11:30 p.m. [...]
Luxury boutique hotel at downtown Exchange Building
WINONA, Minn.—An investor group led by big-time Northfield deal-maker and hotelier Brett Reese has [...]
Rushford-based co-op going solar
RUSHFORD, Minn. – MiEnergy Cooperative, which services rural customers in counties along the Minnesota-Iowa [...]
Tourism shop shifts to off-season schedule
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Visitor Center plans to stay open through the winter [...]
Xcel seeks 9.4% electricity hike now, later more
MINNEAPOLIS – The biggest utility in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota, Xcel Energy, [...]
Wabasha bridge lanes switched
WABASHA, Minn. – The repair crew working the Wabasha-Nelson bridge over the Mississippi River [...]
Army Corps closing north-most locks soon
ST.PAUL, Minn. – anticipating winter, the U.S. Army. Corps of Engineers will close its [...]
No surprise: Target a big, big employer
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The Zippia employment firm dug into its database of 250,000 [...]
Southern Minnesota trains rolling again
OWATONNA, Minn. – The Canadian Pacific resumed freight service on its single-track granger branch [...]
Biden to PolyMet: Not so fast on Babbit mine
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Interior Department ordering a study that could lead to a [...]
Sun Country adds seven MSP destinations
MINNEAPOLIS – The low-cost Minneapolis airline Sun Country announced seven new post-winter seasonal destinations. [...]
Halloween approacheth on Stockton Hill
STOCKTON, Minn. – The Bronks keep lifting pumpkins from their field atop Stockton Hill [...]
Enbridge: We’re cooperating over Line 3 damage
EDMONTON, Alberta. – The Enbridge pipeline company claimed to be “fully cooperating” with Minnesota [...]
Deere parts: Possibly as scare as hen’s teeth?
WATERLOO, Iowa – A strike by 10,000 John Deere factory workers may put 2021 [...]
Enbridge pipeline mess at Clearbrook not fixed
CLEARBROOK, Minn. – Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge missed a deadline [...]