Ortonville News

The assets acquired include development capital, land rights, an 80 meter meteorological tower and historical wind data, and various in-progress development assets.

Area lawmakers are considering seeking $400,000 in state funds to do preliminary studies of a biking and walking trail between Mankato and St.

ELBOW LAKE a ' The Underwood boys golf team shot their way to a third place finish at the Quad County Conference meet at Tipsinah Mounds Golf Course Monday, firing a 346.

Area residents were up early on Sunday to line the streets and bid National Guard troops farewell as they depart on a year-long deployment in the Middle East.

Area residents are encouraged to rise early on Sunday and line the streets to bid National Guard troops farewell as they depart on a year-long deployment in the Middle East.

MONTEVIDEO a ' Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be joining hundreds of citizens from the area as during the upcoming two weekends for send-off events for local troops headed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A South Dakota couple is dead after their car collided with a semitruck in western Minnesota.

Minneapolis-based National Wind LLC plans to develop a 150-megawatt wind energy project in Big Stone County, and has opened an Ortonville office to foster community involvement in the project, called Little ...

" Federal economic stimulus money will provide $180 million for 60 Minnesota transportation projects outside the Twin Cities.

Sixty highway projects in Minnesota will begin construction as early as this spring with transportation money from the federal stimulus package.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced 60 transportation projects in greater Minnesota that will get funding from the federal stimulus package.

Bemidji's statue of Paul Bunyan erected for the January 1937 Winter Carnival was, since 1988, the only Paul on the National Register of Historic Places.

About 560 Minnesota National Guard soldiers are deploying to Kuwait and Iraq. Maj. Gen.

MONTEVIDEO a ' Some 560 soldiers with the Minnesota Army National Guarda TMs 1st Battalion 151st Artillery will be deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major General Larry Shellito announced Friday afternoon at ...

The Minnesota Public Utilties Commission's unanimous approval Thursday of 112 miles of western Minnesota transmission lines drew mixed reaction from area government and environmental-advocacy group leaders.

Wow! That three-letter word sums up my assessment of 2008. Suffice to say Minnesota agriculture was generously blessed in 2007, even more so in 2008.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has scheduled final hearings on permits for transmission lines that would carry electricity from the proposed Big Stone II power plant.

A Siberian-type air mass will move into Minnesota today bringing bone chilling cold, snow and winds so strong that parts of the state are under a blizzard warning this morning.

The "Music on Broadway" series continues at the Alexandria Area Arts Association Theatre this Friday, January 9. The program, which will begin at 7:30 p.m., is The Music of Patsy Cline featuring Cassie Wiesner ...

When there's a fire, accident or medical need for an ambulance, the dispatchers in the Kandiyohi County law enforcement center in Willmar are the calm voice on the other end of the 911 call that sends help to ...