Nicollet County News

West Jefferson resident Judy A. Rohlfs, 66, died Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at Immanuel St.

A research study released Tuesday on the social and emotional health of Mankato youth suggests the infrastructure that once earned national accolades is eroding.

One of two men arrested in a St. Peter crack cocaine sting recently had received a stayed sentence in June for a drug conviction from a similar sting and an assault in Mankato earlier this year.

Citizens from Fairfax, Franklin and Morton met with officials from the University of Minnesota Center for Changing Landscapes Nov.

'Tis the season to pony up and pay it forward. Two Mankato charitable organizations kicked off their annual holiday season fund drives Wednesday.

A pit bull named Rosie who was taken for a walk and not returned Monday was brought back to the Blue Earth Nicollet County Humane Society Wednesday with a new collar and a flimsy excuse.

Several people who were already charged in Blue Earth County for a June graffiti spree are now facing charges in Nicollet County.

The cut of part-time Brown County Extension educator Wayne Schoper was upheld by a 4-1 vote by the county board at its meeting Tuesday.

Good evening everyone, thanks for joining me tonight, I'm Lisa Cownie.Good evening everyone, thanks for joining me tonight, I'm Lisa Cownie...A fatal accident overnight after a semi-tractor trailer rolled over in Nicollet County...The Nicollet County Sheriff's Department says 56-year-old Mark Sondag of Lafayette was pronounced dead at the ...

A 56-year-old rural Lafayette man died Saturday night in a single-vehicle rollover accident on Nicollet County Highway 1. Mark Sondag was driving a westbound semi tractor/trailer about two miles west of State Highway 22 when the vehicle entered the ditch on a curve and rolled.

Nicollet County has until December 31 to find additional grant money in their efforts to expand Minnemishinona Falls Park.The county wants to buy 2-point-8 acres next to the Falls on Judson Bottom Road primarily to expand parking.County administrator Bob Podhradsky says the asking price of the property is $115,000.The county already has a $64,000 ...

At a disappointing Nov. 3 New Ulm City Council meeting, the council considered approving a Minnesota Legacy grant application to place primitive campsites at Riverside and Minnecon Parks.

Finally being able to take advantage of warmer, dry weather this week, farmers got in their combines, tractors and trucks to harvest Minnesota's largest corn crop in history.

A controversial former Watonwan County sheriff agreed to let his law enforcement license lapse and not make another run for sheriff in a plea agreement Monday for a felony theft charge.

On Tuesday, Brown County Commissioners reviewed the 2010 Brown-Nicollet-Watonwan Adult Drug Court budget request subject to participation by the other two counties.

Counties across the state are taking action to make it easier for their workers to stay home sick.News 12's Ryan Gustafson reports on the newest tools being used to stave off the H1N1 virus.At the Nicollet County Administration Building, county workers have plenty of interaction with citizens, and each other.Which is why the county has made such an ...

Wanting to avoid an eminent domain confrontation involving its proposed wind farm project in western Nicollet County, the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to petition the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for a waiver, allowing the project to go forward with the 237 acres of wind rights it already has.

Green glass is piling up at the recycling center in North Mankato A- and most other places.

At just over a million bucks, the Warner Zeno gift to Minnesota State University has the potential to make a lot of local prospective MSU students very happy.

Russell Lindsay and Marilyn A'SkipA' Nielsen graduated together in the Mankato High School class of 1950.