Winona Schools stocking up on Covid home-test kits
WINONA, Minn. – Winona Schools has started rapid Covid testing for students and staff. [...]
Avoid messed-up Butterball ground turkey
GARNER, N.C. -- About 14,000 pounds of Butterball brand ground turkey has been recalled [...]
Governor plans major Covid testing expansion
DULUTH, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz announced plans to “massively expand” Covid testing capacity [...]
Injured on job? Then buy your own marijuana
ST. PAUL. Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court overturned lower court decisions, ruling that [...]
Judge blocks health workers’ inoculation suit
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Employees who challenged a federal mandate to inoculate against Covid [...]
Six new Covid-positive cases at Winona Schools
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Schools policy on Covid masking is working, Superintendent Annette [...]
Rotors ready for Winona Health lift-off
WINONA, Minn. – For seven years the rooftop helipad at Winona Health has been [...]
Winona Health adds rural specialist in Rushford
RUSHFORD, Minn. – A certified physician assistant, Holly Engler, has joined physican Nicholas Modjeski [...]
WSU Covid infections, at 9, drop dramatically
WINONA, Minn. – In its weekly Covid report to the Minnesota State college system, [...]
Covid testing soon on Sundays at Winona Mall
WINONA, Minn. – Starting October 17 the Winona County free Covid site will have [...]
WSU Covid update: Five current cases
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State had four positive cases reported among students and one [...]
From 22 to 4, WSU Covid cases way down this fall
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State university has four Covid cases, according to a weekly [...]
Assumption: Ward won’t facilitate county masking
WINONA, Minn. – If County Board members want to buy time and not enact [...]
Winona hospital relieving overload elsewhere
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona hospital has enough excess capacity, although not much, to [...]
Winona Health builds behavioral services
WINONA, Minn. – A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner has joined the Winona Health [...]
WSU Covid presence at steady state
WINONA, Minn. – The number of Covid cases at Winona State, five as of [...]
Winona Health again offers free flu shots
WINONA Minn. – For a second year Winona Health will offer free flu shots. [...]
Anti-masker makes dubious science claim
WINONA, Minn. – About 20 people gathered outside the Courthouse to object to a [...]
Winona Middle School has Covid infections
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Winona Middle School has been identified by the state [...]
Hospital ready to finish three-shot Pfizer series
WINONA, Minn. – Covid booster shots for already Pfizer-inoculated people are available at Winona [...]
Winona Health has monoclonal anti-Covid drug
WINONA, Minn. – Monoclonal antibody therapy is available at Winona Health for people who [...]
14 new Covid cases erupt in Winona
WINONA, Minn. – Fourteen new Covid infections were confirmed in Winona County by the [...]
Free flu shots coming soon, Covid shots too
WINONA, Minn. – Winona Health plans to start offering free flu shots at a [...]
WSU Covid infections dipping: Four this week
WINONA, Minn. – Three Covid cases are active at Winona State, the university reported [...]
McCoy project: 12,000 inoculations in six days
FORT MCCOY, Wis. – A six-day project to inoculate Afghan refugee at Fort McCoy [...]
WSU Covid count: up to 11 cases
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State University reported tracking 10 student Covid cases and one [...]
WSU Covid count: up to 11 cases
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State University reported tracking 10 student Covid cases and one [...]
Leading epidemiologist at Mayo ceremony
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, [...]
Ward: Let individuals make masking calls
WINONA, Minn. – With the possibility of a Covid mask mandate on the County [...]
Wife of Covid-stricken legislator: Take the jab
DEPERE, Wis. – Please, get vaccinated. Such is the olea of Renee Jacque, wife [...]
Readers weigh in: Lots of nays for City Council nay
WINONA, Minn. – Reader letters to newspapers suggest broad public dissatisfaction with the City [...]
To start semester, 22 student Covid cases at WSU
ST. PAUL. – The Minnesota State colleges system reported 113 student Covid cases systemwide [...]
Mayo opens midtown LaCrosse Covid test site
LACROSSE, Wis. – The Mayo Clinic opened a stand-alone Covid testing site at 10th [...]
School walk-in Covid vaccine clinics planned
WINONA, Minn. – The county Health Department has scheduled walk-in clinics for Covid inoculations [...]
Winona Covid count passes 5,000 cases
WINONA, Minn. –Winona County broke the threshold of 5,000 confirmed Covid cases since the [...]
State hospital volunteers group cites Winonans
WINONA, Minn. – Four Winona Health volunteers have been honored by the Minnesota Association [...]
City Council snubs health experts on masking
WINONA, Minn. –A majority if the City Council, led by at-large member Michelle Alexander, [...]
City Council rejects mayor’s mask order
WINONA, Minn. -- The City Council voted 4-3 to override Mayor Scott Sherman’s two-day-old [...]
Charge: GOP kept Jacque’s Covid close to vest
MADISON, Wis. – Fellow legislators have called State Senator Andrew Jacque reckless for not [...]
Health survey: Sturgis again Covid incubator
STURGIS, S.D.—Bikers who congregated maskless and disregarding social-distancing at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally [...]
Wisconsin senator on Covid ventilator
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Covid-stricken State Senator Andre Jacque has been moved to a [...]
Winona Covid cases approaching 5,000
WINONA, Minn. – Thirteen new Covid cases brought the number of “confirmed” pandemic infections [...]
Hospital to staff: Vax up — no ifs, ands or buts
WINONA, Minn.— Winona Health employees must vaccinate against the Covid virus as a condition [...]
New mask mandate called government overreach
WINONA, Minn. – Predictably the Winona mercantile community is unfriendly to Mayor Scott Sherman’s [...]
Delta charges $200 to non-vaxed employees
ATLANTA, Ga. – Delta Airlines, which is the major carrier into LaCrosse, Minneapolis and [...]
County to seek formal public input on masking
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona County Board voted 3-2 to conduct a public hearing [...]
WSU back at pre-Covid instructional formats
WINONA, Minn. – In-person classes at Winona State are back at pre-Covid levels, university [...]
Bishops find inoculation middle ground for Catholics
MADISON, Wis. – The five-diocese Wisconsin Catholic Conference of Bishops encouraged parishioners to comply [...]
SMU upgrades to Covid shot requirement
WINONA, Minn. – Now that the Pfizer Covid vaccine has full government clearance, Saint [...]
Death claims tallest U.S. person
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The nation’s tallest person at 7-feet-8, Igor Vovkovinskiy of Rochester, died [...]
New emergency doc added at Winona Health
WINONA, Minn. – Osteoopathic physician Chad Kooiker, a graduate of the Des Moines University [...]
LaCrosse prelate update: Serious but stable
LACROSSE, Wis. – Former Catholic Bishop Raymond Burke of LaCrosse, now a cardinal, continued [...]
Railroad grant goes to hospital heart machines
WINONA, Minn. – The Canadian Pacific donated $20,000 to Winona Health as part of [...]
Michigander physician joins emergency staff
WINONA, Minn. – An osteopathic physician, Rob Brown, joined the Winona Health medical staff [...]
Winona Health brings on Spanish-fluent pediatrician
WINONA, Minn. – A third pediatrician, Heather Burton, a graduate of the University of [...]
Forecast: Post-Covid mental crises for kids
WINONA, Minn. –Mental-health services for school children can be expected to grow exponentially in [...]
About city Covid mandates, mayor waits to see
WINONA, Minn. – For right now the city is not considering a vaccination or [...]
To vax or not: State worker options narrow
ST. PAUL, Minn. – State government employees will need to show documents that they’re [...]
Delta variant adds to Winona Covid toll
WINONA, Minn. – In the past week 49 more Covid cases have been reported [...]
Gundersen braces for Covid Delta variant
LACROSSE, Wis. — Gundersen Health has re-activated its Covid unit in La Crosse to [...]