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A legal settlement has been reached paying thousands of dollars to a family whose middle school student was injured playing kickball during summer school in North Mankato, Minn.

Future commuter rail corridors in Rochester have been tentatively mapped and will be on display Monday in a public open house to start the long process of updating the area's long-range transportation plan.

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A federal agency that markets electricity generated by Missouri River dams is increasing its partnerships with wind farms in the Dakotas.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 8:13 am US/Central BISMARCK, N.D. 1 of 1 Seventy percent of the durum crop in North Dakota and Montana was found to be top quality compared with 43 percent last year.

Nebraska looks to fairing better than other dry bean producing states like North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan.

An Inver Grove Heights plan to turn the deteriorating Rock Island Swing Bridge into a scenic Mississippi River viewpoint comes with a $300,000 catch for Dakota County.

Members of Tri-County Electric Cooperative enrolled in Operation Round Up recently gave $5,640 in donations to worthy causes in September.

Ground work has begun on a $90 million Sanford Heart Hospital that doctors say will incorporate cutting-edge technology and minimally invasive techniques to reduce the need for open-heart surgeries.

It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern's celebratory train ride Tuesday that marked the completion of its 30-mile, $15 million track-improvement project.

Curtis Dahlin: Historian discusses his books, "Dakota Uprising Victims: Gravestones & Stories" and "The Dakota Uprising: A Pictorial History," launching St.

Several utilities and electric-transmission concerns are sponsoring a comprehensive study of the Upper Midwesta TMs electric transmission grid a ' part of the effort to develop renewable energy resources in the region.

Lewis and Clark Regional Water System supporters plan to be in Washington next week to push for higher funding levels.

The Prairie Ecology Bus Center will be host to the seventh annual "Prairie Winds Kite Fly" on Saturday, Sept 12.

Building friendships and encouraging conversations is the goal of ceramic artist Anna Metcalfe's work.

Some of the Minnesota lawmakers who pick state-financed construction projects will look at preventing Red River flooding.

I have watched the Seen it on TV Knife Guy in the Horticulture Building at the Minnesota State Fair so many times that I can finish his corny jokes for him.

Merchandisers seemed to take little note of Wednesday's losses in soybean futures, with a stronger basis carrying the DTN Cash Soybean Index up 9 cents.

AUSTIN -- Georgia Elizabeth Soiney, 98, of Austin died Monday, August 17, 2009 at the Austin Medical Center in Austin.

The Red River Basin Commission plans to survey watershed districts and communities in the basin on their flood problems and suggested solutions.