
Arts & Culture
Art Center kicks off annual All-Member Show
The Albert Lea Art Center’s annual All-Member Show opened this week and will continue through Feb. 20. The show takes place every year in January ...
Minnesota reported 37 new COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, including one each from Faribault, Mower and Waseca counties. The Faribault County person was between 90 and ...
The Albert Lea Art Center’s annual All-Member Show opened this week and will continue through Feb. 20. The show takes place every year in January ...
An 18-year-old Hollandale woman was injured in a crash Saturday morning on Minnesota Highway 251 in Mower County. Aubrieana Rae Strain was taken by Mayo ...
Minnesota Department of Health officials are showing concern about Freeborn County’s high COVID-19 positivity rates from tests conducted at the National Guard-operated testing site at ...
To Arcadian Bank. Thank you to Arcadian Bank, formerly known as Farmers State Bank, who this week said thank you to all Mayo Clinic Health ...
News of Trump-inspired mobs ransacking the U.S. Capitol reverberated worldwide, alarming allies and delighting adversaries as it inverted the concept of American exceptionalism. “We currently ...
We had recently received our latest shipment from our monthly snack box and this month our mouths were traveling to the United Kingdom.
Capitol Comments by Peggy Bennett If there is evidence that proves something isn’t working, should we just continue to do it? In state government, we ...
Question: Is it legal to wear earplugs or headphones driving a vehicle in Minnesota? Does the decibel rating matter?
The way we are being taxed on road repair in this town is very unfair. How many of you have paid thousands of dollars for ...
My husband and I went to the first Martin Luther King Day Celebration 33 years ago. We had just adopted our baby daughter, Tess, and ...
Another week, another negative attack column by Democratic writer Jennifer Vogt-Erickson. In my last letter, I called for an end to the divisive personal attacks ...
Community Education provides lifelong learning experiences for all 23,431 residents of District 241 and beyond. While this past year has challenged traditional methods of Community ...
Jan. 13, 2011: Freeborn County Sheriff Bob Kindler answered questions at a press conference about the deaths of two women found in a home in ...
The Naeve Alumni and Nurses’ Club announces nursing scholarships available to area graduating seniors, or persons who have successfully completed one year of education in ...
Hy-Vee Inc. will begin offering COVID-19 rapid antibody testing at more than 250 Hy-Vee pharmacy locations on Monday, including in Albert Lea. Patients will receive ...
The Success Room is new to Hawthorne Elementary this year, and administrators said Tiffany Buchanan and her staff have done an amazing job of supporting ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment could go to trial as soon as Inauguration Day, with U.S. senators serving not only as jurors ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities now believe there is no credible, immediate threat from extremists to Minnesota in the runup to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Public Safety ...
Minnesota reported 33 new COVID-19 deaths on Friday, including one person from both Freeborn and Mower counties. The person from Freeborn County was reportedly between ...
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines ...
Albert Lea police received a report of a stolen vehicle at 7:14 a.m. Thursday at 923 S. Fourth Ave. The vehicle was reportedly later discovered ...
An area bank is paying it forward to health care workers with a new initiative that in turn supports local restaurants.
All area schools are closed today for in-person learning because of weather. Cancellations include Albert Lea Area Schools, Alden-Conger, Glenville-Emmons, NRHEG, Northwood-Kensett, Lake Mills and ...
Roughly one year after Waseca Police Officer Arik Matson was shot in the head while responding to a call of a suspicious person, a bill ...
Lake Mills schools will be dismissing at 2 p.m. Thursday due to impending inclement weather. The wrestling meet scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday has been ...
Freeborn County reported 35 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday out of a total 1,598 new cases across the state, according to the daily update from ...