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  • Lake Street Taco Tour serves up support for local businesses

    Businesses on Lake Street have been dealing with one thing after another after Operation Metro Surge, going back to the COVID pandemic. On Saturday, the community came together to support some of those businesses at the Taco Tour on Lake Street.

  • Secrets of the universe: Scientists in South Dakota may have found dark matter

    Dark matter is a mysterious, theoretical substance that NASA calls “the invisible glue that holds the universe together.” Inside an old gold mine deep in South Dakota’s Black Hills, researchers believe they’re close to moving from theory to proof.

  • Torrential rain causes flooding, mudslides in southern Minnesota

    Updated at 10:55 PM
    Weather and Climate News

    Floodwaters covered streets in the cities of New Richland and Spring Valley after more than a half-foot of rain fell late Friday and early Saturday. The torrential downpours also sent mudslides across state highways.

  • Fillmore County resident tests positive for measles; first case in Minnesota since April

    Yesterday
    Health

    Measles cases seem to be spiking across the country in recent years, as the anti-vaccine movement has grown. The CDC has reported 3,471 confirmed cases so far this year, already surpassing last year’s total count of 2,289. It’s the highest number of reported cases of measles in the U.S. since 1991.

  • 54th annual Mahkato Wacipi in Mankato celebrates Dakota culture, honors men executed in 1862

    Yesterday
    Native News

    The Mahkato Wacipi (Mankato powwow) runs through Sunday, Sept. 20, and all are welcome to attend, as the Dakota people bring the entire community together to experience the Dakota culture and spirituality through education, traditional dance and song, while sharing a commitment to reconciliation.

  • Trump says his D.C. arch will serve as 'military complex' with snipers and drones

    President Trump has claimed that military operations are needed at his proposed triumphal arch in Washington D.C., in order to protect national security. A federal court is weighing the arch's legality.

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