Habitat funding OK’d for St. Charles housing
ST. CHARLES, Minn. – The Habitat for Humanity organization has cleared a financing hurdle [...]
Sounds like one cocktail too many
WINONA, Minn. – A Lewiston driver was stopped after failing to signal on Riverview [...]
$250,000 bail in Dodge Center child porn case
MANTORVILLE, Minn. -- Bond was set at $250,000 for a Dodge Center man on [...]
Teens wreck car; cited for boozing
LACRESCENT, Minn. – Two 16-year-old LaCrescent girls escaped injury when their car drifted into [...]
College scores
Basketball (women): Wisconsin 94, UW-LaCrosse 41 (exhibition)
College scores
Volleyball (women): Winona State 3, MSU-Mankato 1
Chase began at 69 mph, ends in arrest
WINONA, Minn. – The cops’ radar clocked Star Tamara Oviofu at 69 mph in [...]
Two-vehicle U.S. 52 crash; one driver hurt
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A driver was hurt but not seriously when two vehicles, both [...]
Notable journalism
Catie Edmondson (New York Times, September 2 2022): “They Were at the Capitol on [...]
Doesn’t figure: Two beers = 0.11% blood-alcohol?
WINONA Minn. – The woman told the cops who stopped her car that she [...]
College scores
Soccer (women): Saint Mary’s 2, Grinnell 0 Soccer (women): UW-LaCrosse 7, Dubuque 0 Volleyball [...]
Minnesota prep
Football: Winona Winhawks 44, Rochester Century Panthers 14 Football: Harmony [...]
Vigilante sting leads to solicitation arrest
DODGE CENTER, Minn. -- A Dodge Center man was arrested after a vigilante group [...]
Creeping up the ivy vines for Halloween
Two weeks to go. This was a daytime test run for a Halloween [...]
Landlord feud escalates to hammer attack
WINONA, Minn. – A renter and his landlord got into a nasty scuffle that [...]
Probation for drug-dealing, armed UM-R student
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A University of Minnesota-Rochester student was placed on five years probation [...]
Emergency, fire crews make 51 calls
WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 42 emergency medical calls plus 9 fire [...]
WSU to cut ribbon on new solar project
Bird’s-eye view. Eleven clusters of sky-facing solar panels atop roofs on campus east side [...]
Winona High accepts Fastenal gift
Today’s lesson: A place for everything, and everything in its place. Nicole Danfield and [...]
College scores
Soccer (men): Dubuque 2, Saint Mary’s 0
Minnesota prep
Soccer (girls): Winona Winhawks 2, Byron Bears 1 Soccer (girls): [...]
Was death threat a drunk’s idle talk?
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man told police that he extended condolences to a [...]
Ellison not letting Enbridge off hook
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison anounced that he will file [...]
Iron Range bust finds drugs, guns, $92,000
VIRGINIA, Minn. – Agents arrested a Virginia man on a felony probation violation but [...]
Post-George Floyd arsonist to prson
MINNEAPOLIS – A Rochester man will go to federal prison for 6-1/2 years for [...]
SMU’s Haunted Walk moves indoors
WINONA, Minn. – The Criminal Justice Club at Saint Mary’s University will renew its [...]
Toot, toot: CP Holiday Train back on rails
MINNEAPOLIS – The Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train will be on the rails again for [...]
Minnesota prep
Volleyball (girls): Chatfield Gophers 3, Wabasha-Kellogg Falcons 0 Volleyball (girls): [...]
$13,000 loss reported in Nigerian scam
WINONA, Minn. – Police were contacted by an East Side person about sending something [...]
Anyone inside? Thermal imaging yields answer
ROCHESTER, Minn. – When firefighters arrived at a burning garage, panicked neighbors shouted that [...]
Group home fracas results in head injury
WINONA, Minn. – A group home resident was arrested after he was reported to [...]
Thieves target construction site for copper
STEWARTVIILE, Minn. – Investigators began looking for links between two thefts of copper wire [...]
WSU has mixed news on diversity goals
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State has made modest progress toward its diversity goals in [...]
Fort McCoy shifted 2022 resources to Afghan project
FORT MCCOY, Wis. – Significantly fewer soldiers trained at Fort McCoy thus past year [...]
$100,000 bail on Trempealeau child porn charges
WHITEHALL, Wis. – A convicted child pornographer, Stephen Hans Jenkins, 37, was ordered held [...]
College scores
Soccer (women): Winona State 1, Northern State of South Dakota 1 Soccer (women): Saint [...]
Elderly gent stubbornly tries outlasting fire
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A police officer physically removed a 74-year-old man from his burning [...]
Illegal gun sale reported at auction
UTICA, Minn. – Deputies responded to a report of an illegal gun sale at [...]
Fire at Eyota American Legion bar
EYOTA, Minn. – The television football games were over, and the crew was closing [...]
Southward fall color sweep progressing
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The updated fall colors map from the state Natural Resources [...]
Post Office: Employee stole money orders
MADISON, Wis. – An Alma postal worker was charged in federal court with stealing [...]
Grace Place founder retiring on 30th anniversary
WINONA, Minn. –The mission-oriented Grace Place, which offers refuge and support for people through [...]
Welcome to our showroom — if you dare
WINONA, Minn. – The Sugar Loaf Ford dealership got in the Halloween spirit with [...]
Girl extricated unconscious from burned-out wreck
ORONOCO. Minn. -- First responders pulled a trapped teenager from her vehicle after it [...]
College scores
Football: Winona State 43, Southwest Minnesota State 7 Football: UW-LaCrosse 51, UW-EaO Claire 21 [...]
Minnesota prep
Soccer (boys): Winona Cotter Ramblers 2, LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers 1 Soccer [...]
Plainview truck, car collide; two injuries
NORTHFIELD, Minn. – A pickup truck packed with four Plainview people collided with a [...]
Season’s glorious end at Woodlawn
A bed of leaves. Off West Lake Boulevard. Image: Steve Lunde A cemetery’s gateway [...]
College scores
Soccer (women): Winona State 3, MSU-Moorhead 0 Volleyball (women): Winona State 3, MSU-Crookston 0 [...]
Minnesota prep
Football: Stewartville Tigers 41, Winona Winhawks 0 Football: Caledonia Warriors [...]
Wisconsin prep
Football: Alma/Pepin Eagles 46, Fountain City Pirates 14 Football: Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau [...]
Sheriff: Hospitals need to report overdosing
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson said Minnesota needs a law to [...]
Was it snow? Or wasn’t it?
WINONA, Minn. – Random flurries danced through the coulees in the afternoon but left [...]
First guilty pleas in $250 million food fraud
MINNEAPOLIS -- Three Minnestra people accused in the largest CoVid-era fraud cause in the [...]
State senator sued for two-death car wreck
ASHLAND, Wis.— The State Senate minority leader, Janet Bewley, has been sued for the [...]
Drug charges add to stack against fugitive
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver was stopped by a deputy for a whole [...]
New behavioral therapist at Winona Health
WINONA, Minn. – A behavioral health therapist, Elizabeth Martinka, has joined Winona Health to [...]
Missing hiker found safe in Tiffany wilderness
NELSON, Wis. – A lost hiker was found safe about 1 a.m. in the [...]
College scores
Soccer (women): UW-LaCrosse 5, Luther of Iowa 0
Minnesota prep
Football: Faribault Bethlehem Cardinals 67, Winona Cotter Ramblers 13 Soccer [...]