Winona faculty leader: Put reset on Trump cuts
WINONA, Minn. – Everybody in higher education needs to rally against arbitrary and reckless [...]
GOP presses anew to oust Senator Mitchell
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Senate Republicans took a new tack to unseat state Senator Nicole [...]
Municipal buses as mobile warming shelters
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Rochester public transit system waived its usual $2 fare for [...]
Breath check finds 0.15% alcohol in his blood
UTICA, Minn. – A deputy stopped a Lewiston man for speeding on U.S. Highway [...]
ICE jailing immigrant detainees in Albert Lea
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – The Freeborn County jail is being used by federal agents [...]
Advice to immigrants: Don’t open your door
WASHINGTON – A champion of immigrant rights, Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, advised immigrants not [...]
ICE agents in Rochester: Poised for raids?
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Federal immigration agents who arrested two kitchen workers on the street [...]
Protesters at Peace Plaza against immigrant arrests
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A couple dozen placard-hoisting marchers gathered to protest federal immigration agents [...]
Senate opponents derail sports gambling
ST.PAUL, Minn. – Sports gambling has hit a road block in a state Senate [...]
ICE agents arrive: Restaurant workers nabbed
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Federal immigration agents gabbed two men off a parking lot at [...]
Minnesota laughs: Personifying our snowplows
ST.PAIL, Minn. -- Coming soon to a snowplow near you. Watch in southeast Minnesota [...]
Silliness in St. Paul: Beaver on your plate
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Senator Steve Green, R- Fosston, introduced a bill to legalize [...]
Minnesota rule: Gonads not factor for prep sports
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota High School League ruled that transgender athletes can [...]
Iowa governor: I’ll yank funds to Decorah if…
DES MOINES, Iowa – Governor Kim Reynolds threatened to pull state funding for Winneshiek [...]
Boycott update: House leaders agree to share power
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Leaders of feuding Democrats and Republicans have negotiated the outlines [...]
Where’s Van Orden? Skips out on risky townhall
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The Trump toady who’s the western Wisconsin member of Congress, [...]
Sheriff fears ICE detention raids are amuck
Winneshiek County jail. Is Decorah jail being eyed by U.S. immigration agents to detain [...]
School bus rear-ended; no injuries
ELK MOUND, Wis – A school bus on its morning rounds to pick up [...]
Experts:Trump tariff means higher gas prices
ST.PAUL, Minn. -- The tariff war that President Trump started Saturday against Canada will [...]
All apparently copasetic at Winona Target store
WINONA, Minn. – Neither the Winona police nor the sheriff’s department has been asked [...]
Bishop backs Trump attack on transgender funding
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Catholic bishop for southern Minnesota, Robert Barron, endorsed President Trump’s [...]
Rival House leaders in political theater
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman said she has been [...]
Winona senator files sports gambling retread
ST. PAUL, Minn. – State Senator Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, has dusted off his proposal [...]
GOP to Supreme Court: Cut Simon down to size
ST. PAUL, Minn. – House Republicans asked the state Supreme Court to force the [...]
Democrats win Senate majority with Doron Clark
MINNEAPOLIS – Democrat Doron Clark won a special election to the Minnesota Senare by [...]
Democrats: GOP dallying on power-sharing deal
ST. PAUL, Minn. –Although the state Supreme Court defined the term quorum, the weekend [...]
GOP senators seek answers on fraud charges
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Thirty Republican state senators asked state agencies to investigate allegations [...]
Court: House Democrats right on quorum
ST. PAUL, Minn. –The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the quorum needed for the [...]
North Dakota court denies interim abortion ban
BISMARCK, N.D. – The state appeals court ruled that the North Dakota abortion ban [...]
River barge traffic in 2024 still slumping
Trempealeau lockages off 19%. From 10-year average. Only 6 million tons on 1,500 barges [...]
Supreme Court ponders role in House mess
What do they say about a house divided? Every Republican is present every day [...]
Judge grim on Trump choke on birthright
SEATTLE, Wash. – A federal judge blocked President Trump’s order curtailing the right to [...]
On Iowa annexation plan: “Nice to be wanted”
PRESTON, Minn. – At first Jason Sethre, publisher of the Fillmore County Journal, thought [...]
Mess in Minnesota House worries senator
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A southeast Minnesota state senator, Jeremy Miller of Winona, is [...]
Ellison to Trump on birthright: See you in court
ST. PAUL Minn. -- Minnesota joined 21 other states in a legal challenge to [...]
Minnesota Senate opens with shared leadership
Swearing-in ceremony. Winona Senator Jeremy Miller, a Republican, and Bobby Joe Champion, a Minneapolis [...]
Geopolitical whackiness: A new annexing scheme
Price tag? A grand-standing Iowa state senator is proposing that Iowa buy Minnesota’s southern [...]
Court puts monkey wrench in House election
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Governor Tim Walz jumped [...]
Walz proposes trimmer budget, tax cut
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Governor. Tim Walz unveiled his budget proposal for the next [...]
U.S. attorney for Minnesota resigns
MINNEAPOLIS -- U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, who handled federal prosecutions in Minnesota in the [...]
House GOP defiant to Simon: Don’t bother us
Gates shut. Republicans have declared Secretary of State Steve Simon neither wanted nor needed. [...]
Day 2 of House boycott: Brief session
ST.PAUL, Minn. – House Republicans started the second day of the 2025 legislative session [...]
Democrats stage boycott in St. Paul power struggle
ST. PAUL, Minn. – When Republicans showed up for the opening session the 2025 [...]
Senators settle on political power-sharing
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The temporarily tied Minnesota Senate struck a power-sharing agreement on [...]
Court: Domestic abuse laws apply to ex’s
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Litchfield man who wanted a domestic abuse charge dropped [...]
Fretting about Supreme Court? WSU has answers
WINONA, Minn. – Aware of rising pubic concern that the U.S. Supreme Court has [...]
$3.2 million grants to local food producers
ST..PAUL, Minn. – Federal infrastrastrucure grants totaling $3.2 million have been awarded food-supply operations [...]
LaCrosse airport’s plan to bring Delta back
LACROSSE, Wis. -- The La Crosse airport’s governing board is seeking $250,000 in county [...]
Mayor, accused of slapping child, resigns
CANTON, Minn; -- Canton’s mayor resigned amid changes that he was excessive with corporal [...]
Main Square West seeks another rule exception
WINONA, Minn. – Investors behind Main Square West urban renewal project have asked the [...]
How they voted: On Johnson as House speaker
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 218-215 to re-elect Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, [...]
Townspeople split on leader’s drunk-driving case
PRESTON, Minn. -- Mayor Kurt Reicks confirmed that Ryan Throckmorton remains in office as [...]
Economics update: Minnesota jobs growth surges
ST. PAUL, Minn. – As judged by job growth, the Minnesota economy is looking [...]
You can’t fly there anymore
ROSEAU, Minn. – An airfield that straddles the U.S.-Canada border is shutting down. The [...]
Minnesota exports nearly quadruple national rate
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Exports of Minnesota products surged 11% ahead of a year [...]
Official: U.S. now has a national bird
WASHNGTON – President Biden signed legislation from Congress to amend the United States Code to [...]
Mayor has court date on child abuse charges
CANTON, Minn. – The mayor of Canton, Joshua Darin Nordsving, was charged with beating [...]
How they voted: On federal budget /1
WASHINGTON – Federal employees and anyone receiving entitlement checks will be paid. The U.S. [...]
Rezoning OK’d for new Kierlin renewal project
WINONA, Minn. – The city Planning Commission voted unanimously to rezone a block across [...]
How they voted: On Trump tax cuts for rich
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House rejected President-elect Trump’s plan to suspend the national debt [...]