Dover News

Olmsted County authorities are investigating the shooting death of a dog in a kennel in the backyard of a Dover home.

Don & Cindy Schneider of Melrose, MN announce the engagement of their daughter Kari to Jesse Allhiser, son of Mike & Sue Allhiser of Dover, MN.

John Shorter fled the milk barn on his rural Dover farm, blood running from his head.

A hay barn fire was occupying Dover and Eyota fire departments Friday night. The fire was reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. at a farm on Olmsted County Road 142 east of Eyota.

Dear Answer Man, there is an ice cream truck that visits my friends' neighborhood and I want it to come to MY neighborhood.

Battle lines seem to be hardening over a proposed Rochester rail bypass. An open forum, sponsored by an opposition group, Citizens Against Rochester's Bypass, filled a 525-seat auditorium at Stewartville High School on Thursday night.

The southern rail corridor that was recently proposed by officials in Olmsted County is now taking some heat from local farmers.

WINONA -- Blake Duane Hein, 86, of Winona, MN, died Saturday, May 2, 2009 at The Golden Living Center -Whitewater in St.

Freight hauling, not high-speed passenger service, is the main expressed purpose for a proposed Rochester-area railroad bypass.

As Rochester has lobbied for inclusion in a plan connecting the Twin Cities with Chicago via high-speed passenger rail, one persistent argument has stood in its way: "You've opposed coal trains for a decade, but you can't wait for passenger trains?" On Tuesday, officials from the city of Rochester, Olmsted County and Mayo Clinic officially unveiled ...

Firefighters from St. Charles, Dover and Lewiston battle a blaze Friday, April 17, 2009 at North Star Foods in St.

St. Charles residents have been evacuated as smoke pours from the burning North Star Foods poultry processing plant.

Charles, Minn., are fleeing town as a fire approaches chemical storage tanks at a poultry processing plant.

A revised $2.7 million county road resurfacing budget is made up of these sources: * $700,000 original budget * $650,000 budgeted for right-of-way on two projects being delayed * $225,000 for construction costs on a project now receiving state funding instead * $560,000 budgeted for construction on a road project being delayed * $440,000 from two ...