Swift County News

A 16-year-old boy is dead after a tragic motorcycle accident Sunday night. According to a press release, Swift County Sheriff's received a 911 phone call of a motorcycle accident.

Site of Swift Falls fire nearly clean, to become a park SWIFT FALLS, Minn. After years of work, a hazardous materials site in Swift Falls is nearly cleaned up, and officials are turning the three-acre site into a park along the Chippewa River.

Just as time and new grass can erase the signs of death on a battlefield, the same is happening in Swift Falls where a once hazardous site is becoming a park.

A highway project begins June 1 near Kerkhoven that will detour traffic for about a month.

Benson Public Schools will trim $154,000 from the budget for the 2009-10 school year without laying off an employee.

BENSON a ' Cody Lee Friese, 18, of Willmar, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and one day in prison, which was stayed, three years of probation and 60 days in the Swift County Jail for his role in vandalizing the KMS Elementary School in Murdock last summer.

John Caddy: Poet and teacher who pioneered the connection between ecology and art begins a six-week series, "Earth Gifts: Poems of Celebration." 1-3 p.m. next Sunday; Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave.

DANVERS, Minn. a ' The drivers of two vehicles involved in a head-on collision around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday along County Road 17 about three miles south of Danvers were both killed, according to Swift County ...

HOLLOWAY, Minn. -- A 75-year-old man has died after rescuing his female companion and severely disabled son from a house fire in southwestern Minnesota.

A 75-year-old man has died after rescuing his female companion and severely disabled son from a house fire in southwestern Minnesota .

More than 150 trees were planted, bringing the two-year total to almost 300 trees.

A December-long statewide DWI enforcement effort resulted in 2,655 DWI arrests. The average alcohol-concentration of the DWI offenders was 0.14 - nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08. Preliminary arrest totals ...

SUNBURG a ' Sanderson Lake in northeastern Swift County has been opened to liberalized fishing, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced today.

Law enforcement officers in Kandiyohi and Swift counties arrested 25 people for driving while impaired during December, with most of the arrests bunched in the weeks just before and after Christmas.

A former Appleton man and corrections officer accused of killing his wife has been released on bail.

Developers of a 9,590-head dairy operation are seeking up to $20 million in low-interest municipal industrial development revenue bonds to help build the large dairy west of Willmar.