Faribault News

KARE11.com updated July 3, 2009 ST. PAUL, Minn. -- After a deadly Memorial Day weekend on Minnesota roads, authorities are stepping up patrols for drunken drivers over the Independence Day holiday.

The 2008 census numbers were released today.Between July 1st of 2007 and July 1st 2008 Nicollet County is up 9-tenths of a percent.Blue Earth is up 8-tenths of a percent.It's not as good for rural counties such as Faribault and Watonwan losing over one percent of their population during the year.News 12's Erick Lind explains why both metropolitan ...

Strong thunderstorms moved through the Albert Lea area with heavy rains and high wind.

For 36 years, Jim Slifka ran the Medford wrestling room. Slifka spends his time now watching high school and college wrestling from the stands and spending time outdoors.

FARIBAULT a ' The River Bend Nature Center announced Thursday it has hired Tyler Ahnemann as its new executive director.

The small town of Medford welcomed a colorful mix of leather-clad bikers, rowdy kids and lazy summer loungers on Saturday, during Straight River Days.

The Albert Lea Colonels couldn't overcome a poor start Sunday in a 4-1 loss on the road in Faribault.

Melvin R. Schrader, 81, of Faribault MN; formerly of North Minneapolis, passed away June 19, 2009 at Pleasant Manor Nursing Home, Faribault.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is investigating the disposal of a deer carcass in the Straight River by a Rice County highway worker.

Who says you can't go home again? While it won't technically take me back again, I'm happy to announce some reassignment changes that return me to my journalistic roots: covering schools.

With the future of the Faribault Woolen Mills hanging by a thread, hope rests with a newly installed chief operating officer who knows his way around a textile mill.

Flying a tattered flag isn't against the law, but it might bring Paul Kolb to your front door.

Living in a rural area without a large industrial base certainly has its perks, at least as far as air quality is concerned, for Northfield students.

Faribault officials are increasingly frustrated over unanticipated costs at their new police headquarters, a project awarded to the same company that is coordinating Northfield's Safety Center Task Force.

Straight out of college, retiring Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted Supt. George Ladd began a long and interesting career that even included teaching his siblings.

The Mankato area has a pair of representatives on a key railroad planning committee and those representatives have three decisions they'll be trying to influence.

A woman taking a social ethics class at the Steele County Detention Center is now facing drug charges for possibly slipping an inmate drugs.

A Mapleton man died when the car in which he was riding was hit Thursday afternoon near Mankato, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

A stubborn dry spell has left half of Minnesota farmland short of topsoil moisture, an unsettling prospect during what typically are the wettest months of the year.

FARIBAULT a ' Victor Michael Summa, 77, pleaded not guilty Monday in Rice County District Court for a charge of interfering with property in official custody.