Festival opening mega-grocery in Chippewa Falls
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. --- The grocery supermarket chain Festival is opening its 41st store, [...]
Minnesota tax update: Revenue exceeds projections
ST. PAUL, Minn. – State tax collections in August exceeded expectations by 5.8%, the [...]
Kwik Trip marches west into South Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip chain has planted its flag in [...]
Strike ahead? Hormel, meat-packer union at impasse
AUSTIN, Minn. -- Negotiations between Hormel Foods and 1,700 meat-packer employees have entered a [...]
Filling up in Galesville? No choice anymore
GALESVILLE, Wis. -- This Trempealeau County town of 1,600 has lost one its two [...]
Hormel: Undercooked Spam recalled
AUSTIN, Minn. -- A small batch of Hormel’s Spam meat product has been recalled [...]
Land Stewards plan come-listen biogas session
LEWISTON, Minn. -- Although a Danish company has withdrawn plans for a biogas plant [...]
Frac is back: New mine proposed near Utica
UTICA, Minn. – A rural couple petitioned the Winona County Planning Commission to allow [...]
Attorney general launches dialogue on worker abuse
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Everybody knows about the corporate abuse of workers by classifying [...]
Plan scuttled for Lewiston biogas factory
LEWISTON, Minn. -- A Danish energy-production company that had scouted Lewiston as a site [...]
Rochester proceeds with showcase waterpark
Soldiers Park. Plans include new tennis and basketball facilities and hiking trails in wilderness [...]
$500,000 job: Kahler restores rooftop signature
Back in skyline. Need a room in Rochester? Finding the classy Kahler will be [...]
Winona Mall negotiations now at $4.3 million
WINONA, Minn. – The price tag for the Winona Mall has dropped. Sources said [...]
Bright spot among Minnesota exports: Iron ore
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Exports of Minnesota products to other countries fell 9% in [...]
3M pays $6 billion for bad earplugs
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. – The giant manufacturer 3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to [...]
Major expansion at Lutsen ski resort denied
Overlooking Lake Superior. The Lutsen company had wanted to double its skiable terrain and [...]
State re-licenses Monticello nuclear storage area
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state Public Utilities Commission granted a 17-year extension to [...]
Minnesota minimum wage goes up for 2024
ST. PAUL, Minn. – To help wage-earners meet rising costs of living, the inflation-triggered [...]
What the top, top brass earns in Minnesota
NEW YORK CITY – The financial advisory site Investopedia identified the chief executive of [...]
Obertons jump-start Winona mountain-bike training
WINONA, Minn. – The City Council accepted a gift of $137,800 to add a [...]
Bridge includes midstream bus stops, river steps
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The City Council, dazzled by architects' renderings of a new Zumbro [...]
Port Authority OKs funds for Levee docking upgrades
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Port Authority approved $460,000 for a Mississippi riverfront project [...]
Developers offer peek at riverfront hotel
Choice of views. Hotel guests to have choice of premium riverview rooms or lesser [...]
Alert: Utility spending to goose propane costs
ST/ PAUL, Minn. – An advocacy group, the Citizens Utility Board, said that expensive [...]
Mayor: New rotaries issue needs to be safety
WINONA, Minn. – Mayor Scott Sherman said he’s received positive citizen feedback to four [...]
Trader Joe’s: Chunks in cookies may be stones
MONROVIA, Calif. -- -- The upscale grocer Trader Joe's said some pf its store-branded [...]
State agency wish list: More Winona roundabouts
Rotaries mushrooming. Winona already has five roundabouts – four on Mankato and one on [...]
Feud over: Army Corps cedes silt disposal to Wabasha
WABASHA, Minn. – The Army Corps and the City of Wabasha have solved years [...]
Leinenkugel brewery workers post picket lines
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – The Teamsters Union began a strike against the Leinenkugel's brewery. [...]
More trans-con Winona rail traffic due
WINONA, Minn. – Train traffic through Winona on tthe new CPKC transcontinental rail system [...]
Ground Round make-over: Pizza, chicken, salad buffet
WINONA, Minn. – The 200-unit pizza and chicken buffet chain is opening a franchise [...]
A hotel on the Winona Levee? Still yakking
WINONA, Minn. –The Port Authority would like to see a hotel built at the [...]
Coming soon: A new look for the ol’ CP
CALGARY, Alb. -- The 20,000 employees of the CPKC railroad have been asked to [...]
Biggest of the big private U.S. companies: Cargill
NEW YORK – The annual Forbes magazine list of the largest privately owned companies [...]
Fraud charged in Hefty bags advertising
ST' PAUL, Minn. -- Attorney General Keith Ellison sued the manufacturer of Hefty bags [...]
Windom’s closing pork plant: What next?
HOSPERS, Iowa – It remained a local mystery what the Hospers-based company Iowa Premium [...]
Army Corps’ new setback for PolyMet mine
Iron Range. The proposed mine, usuallu called NorthMet project would be in the Mesabi [...]
HyLife covers “adios travel” for displaced workers
WINDOM, Minn. – The Canada-owned HyLife pork producer said it will arrange transportation back [...]
State agency lists healthiest dairy herds
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state Agriculture Department has recognized dairy farms with low [...]
Niche Iowa pork producer was Windom buyer
WINDOM Minn. -- The buyer of the HyLife pork slaughterhouse in Windom appears to [...]
HyLife sells Windom pork plant, killing 1,000 jobs
Pork factory. HyLife’s sprawling factory in Windom. Words had been out around town that [...]
Klobuchar calls for stricter rail safety rules
WASHINGTON -- Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, co-sponsor of the bipartisan Railway Safety bill [...]
Judge faults tribe on Bad River inaction
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge said he's unlikely to force the Canadian energy [...]
First Walz veto: No to Uber, Lyft drivers
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz vetoed a bill that would have mandated [...]
Answers proffered at forum on bad rural water
LEWISTON, Minn. – The League of Women Voters invited citizens concerned about Lewiston drinking [...]
New farm bill into law with rural broadband
Barnyard event. The Legislature’s bipartisan work on a new agriculture bill was Governor Tim [...]
USA Today poll: Kwik Trip tops again
WASHINGTON – The Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip chain was named the best in the country [...]
Biogas promoters brief Lewiston Council about plant
LEWISTON, Minn. – The Lewiston City Council voted 4-0 to listen further to a [...]
Mayo looks ahead: More Rochester skyscrapers
Ever onward, upward, outward. Who knows the price tag of Mayo’s next expansions. At [...]
Limbo: What next for Masterpiece Hall
Big glass cube. One issue for Winona Historic Preservation Commission purists is the 46-foot [...]
Tribal attorney: New mercury limits fall short
WASHINGTON -- Environmentalists and the Lake Superior Chippewa Nation welcomed a proposal for cutbacks [...]
Cub chain plans second Rochester grocery store
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Stillwater-based CUB grocery chain plans to build an 80,000 square [...]
Army Corps’ dam disposition study moves ahead
St. Anthony Falls dams. In this 2008 panorama, looking downstream, are both the Upper [...]
New Enbridge-Bad River showdown looms
MADISON, Wis. – A Wisconsin Native American tribe asked a federal judge to shut [...]
Amazon nixes Minnesota grocery venture
ARLINGTON, Va. – Amazon's plan to enter the Twin Cities grocery store market with [...]
Mayo’s $5 billion ultimatum: Our way or no way
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The financially powerful Mayo Clinic is bullying the Legislature to back [...]
Feds to iron mines: Cut mercury emissions
WASHINGTON -- In a tribal-friendly crackdown on the iron-mining companies in Minnesota and the [...]
River cruises plan record Winona Levee visits
WINONA, Minn. – Cruise companies have purchased Winona docking privileges for 31 landings by [...]
Merchants parent firm’s earnings slip
WINONA, Minn. -- Merchants Financial Group announced that net income for the first quarter [...]
Van Orden to railroad: I told you so
FERRYVILLE, Wis. – Congress member Derrick Van Orden said he warned the Burlington Northern [...]