Elgin News

Three people were injured in an crash Sunday morning on Interstate 90 near the Eyota exit.

The driver of a tour bus that crashed in southern Minnesota last month, killing two passengers and injuring 20 others, was struck by a sudden medical condition while behind the wheel and will not be charged in the case, the Freeborn County attorney said Friday morning.

A controversial Rochester skyway extension has a funding plan to match. The Rochester City Council informally agreed Monday to, in effect, lend Rochester developer Joe Weis his share of the cost to build a new skyway south from Holiday Inn Express, in the 300 block of South Broadway, to his City Centre office building.

A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of the bus company said Thursday.

Federal inspectors ordered the company that operated the motor coach in Wednesday's fatal crash to remove buses from service three times in the past year and a half for safety violations, and the company is under extra scrutiny because of its safety rating, federal records say.

A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of the bus company said Thursday.

Two people died and 21 others were hurt Wednesday when a tour bus returning from an Iowa casino ran off Interstate 90 in southern Minnesota and rolled over in a ditch, authorities said.

The Minnesota State Patrol today announced the names of the two victims killed and the 20 injured in Wednesday afternoon's bus crash on I-90 near Austin, Minn.

A commercial truck driver who has been convicted several times for drunken driving and other traffic violations ran a stop sign in southeastern Minnesota and crashed into a pickup truck, killing the pickup's driver, authorities said.

A federal agriculture official makes a stop in Minnesota announcing new funding for new farmers and ranchers in Minnesota and surrounding states.Deputy agriculture secretary Kathleen Merrigan makes the stop in Elgin today.The funding will be administered through the beginning farmer and rancher development program, which provides help to farmers ...

A federal Agriculture Department official in southeastern Minnesota is announcing $17 million in grants to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers.

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By now, many Minnesotans have picked apples at an orchard and savored a sweet Honeycrisp or a tart Haralson.

On Oct. 2, 2008, the beaten body of Muhidin Mumin, of Rochester, was found in a downtown Rochester alley.

Construction has begun on an 8-mile section of the Great River Ridge Trail from Elgin to Olmsted County Road 9, south of Viola.

Rollie Horsman has a simple secret to being so active at 90 years old -- stay inside his size 12 shoes and keep those shoes moving.

Twenty years ago, Ron and Betty Fahrenz bought a 40-acre palette on which to mix colors and plants to create their own version and vision of beauty.

Thieves took televisions from two houses in Olmsted County on Sunday. And, overnight Saturday, thieves snatched bicycles from garages in northwest Rochester.

An Elgin man allegedly shot another man's car in rural Plainview on June 29 because he was upset with the car's owner.

The family of a man killed in a November 2007 car accident near Elgin has settled its lawsuit against the driver of the other vehicle.