Wanamingo News

With demand falling because of the recession, the price farmers receive for their milk has fallen from $18.45 per hundredweight last year at this time to $10.45 this year.

Starting today, you could get busted in Minnesota if you don't buckle up. A new law allows police officers to ticket drivers for not wearing seat belts, even if they have committed no other traffic offense.

If you don't already have enough reasons to buckle up you'll gain one more motivating factor Tuesday.

When a new state law toughening seat belt enforcement takes effect Tuesday, Kathy Cooper of Northfield will be thinking of one person -- her daughter Meghan.

An estimated 25,000 turkeys died after a fire swept through a turkey barn on Friday afternoon in rural Cannon Falls.

" Randolph pitcher Ethan Kuehn held the Knights to two hits in 4 1/3 innings Saturday to help the Rockets advance in the Section 1A West tournament at Riverland Community College.

Wanamingo kicks off its annual Syttende Mai celebration with a lutefisk and meatball supper at Lands Lutheran Church, rural Zumbrota.

Plans for a Byron development that would include a 160,000-square-foot dome sports complex and two restaurants seem to be fizzling out after a Byron Planning and Zoning commission meeting Monday night.

Tuesday's blustery conditions would have been problematic for Cannon Falls senior Andy Althoff a couple years ago because he hits his drives high.

Randy Hinzmann ripped siding off two sides of his old log cabin and found problems were even worse than he expected: a mouse nest between logs, rotting logs, concrete where an old door had been.

Fire destroyed a mobile home in Wanamingo early Monday. According to Fire Chief Scott Goodman, a neighbor reported the fire at 53 Hillcrest Manor in the Hillcrest Manor Mobile Home Park at 3:35 a.m. Homeowner Curtis Greene was not home, Goodman said.

Apr 21, 2009 10:37 pm US/Central Reporting Heather Brown ST. PAUL The Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association , which represents alcohol retailers in the state, doesn't support allowing alcohol sales on Sunday.

A developer fired back at the City of Byron on Friday in response to city leaders citing inappropriate involvement with his business as a reason for firing a staffer.

A fight Sunday between two Wanamingo brothers landed one man in the hospital and the other in jail.

Nearly three days after firing its city administrator, Byron's mayor and city council now say Gerald Henricks was terminated after it was discovered he had conflict of interest and violated city policy by being involved in a business relationship with a property developer involved in the city's Crown Pointe development.

The Goodhue County Sheriff's Office is investigating an 11-year-old girl's report that she was sexually assaulted last week outside the Kenyon-Wanamingo elementary school.

City officials here want help out of the senior housing business, but some Goodhue County officials fear getting involved could be financially risky.

It wasn't exactly how the volunteer firefighters from Zumbrota and Wanamingo wanted to spend their Easter Sunday: responding during the middle of a church service to a grass fire that burned nearly 40 acres just west of Zumbrota.

Highway 60 from Kenyon to Zumbrota will be resurfaced this summer, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.

Minnesotans should begin experiencing their first "Making Work Pay Tax Credit" by April 1. This is not an April Fools Day joke.