All nine eligible Mayo Clinic hospitals, including Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin have earned A grades ...

By Paul Huttner and Ngoc Bui The demand for electricity in Minnesota is growing, and that means costs are going up, too. Xcel ...

The Minnesota Vikings get another chance to clean up some offensive issues Sunday in their second of two straight road games ...

By Tim Ruzek Leading up to Election Day in 1900, the Mower County 5th District commissioner’s race was the talk of Austin.

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Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil and natural gas. Environmental advocates ...

Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest meat processors, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota, officials announced Thursday. An ...

The satirical news publication The Onion was named the winning bidder for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction Thursday, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims ...

The remains of a 7-year-old boy were buried Friday, a solemn last act in a yearlong effort to confirm the identity of a skeleton found decades ago in a road culvert in Wisconsin. The boy was known as ...

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered the trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90. Renz died ...

By Todd Lechtenberg Executive director of Finance and Operations Lechtenberg Each November, as property owners, farmers, and businesses prepare for the new year, they receive proposed tax statements.