The Freeborn County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted 3-1 on a resolution that opposes the proposed battery energy ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is waiving vehicle permit fees at all 73 state parks and recreation areas on April 26. This “Free Park Day” is one of four days each year on which the DNR ...

Albert Lea Police Lt. Darin Palmer received the Meritorious Award for exceptional service as a Special Weapons and Tactics ...

Police arrested Joshua Laughlin, 33, for disorderly conduct, domestic assault and fourth-degree assault after receiving a report of a male kicking in the door at 11:59 p.m. Monday at 936 Jefferson Ave ...

Living with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, St. Cloud resident Keith Piskur has learned to concisely tell people all the ways that Medicaid helps him live his life.

Howard and Doris Sigurdson will both agree it was pretty much love at first sight. She was 15 and he was 17 when they went on their first date after Doris’s brother and his girlfriend were going to a ...

A man was arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota after threatening violence, months after the company’s CEO was killed, authorities said Monday. The man was spotted around 11 a.m.

The Albert Lea City Council voted unanimously Monday to move forward with the preparation of plans for a remodel of City Hall that officials say would improve security and efficiency of the building.

Dennis “Willard” Harold Thisius of Clarks Grove, MN, passed away peacefully at home on April 9, 2025, surrounded by family and close friends after a well fought battle with cancer. He was 62 years of ...

The Shell Rock River Watershed District’s administrator on Monday discussed the district’s plans to treat Fountain Lake in the near future with an herbicide to suppress an invasive species that has ...

Power was out for over 1,000 customers in southwestern Albert Lea late Saturday night and early Sunday morning after a man reportedly crashed into a power pole at 11:58 p.m. Saturday at the ...

By Yvette Higgins, Report for Minnesota After more than 80 years, the Legislature appears poised to change a rule that ...