Private well owners in the Martin County area can get their water tested for free this week. The Minnesota Well Owners Organization is offering onsite testing for nitrates, chlorides and arsenic on Thursday, from 11am-6pm, at the Knights of Columbus in Fairmont. President Paul Wotzka says to bring one quart of water in...

A five vehicle crash on Highway 15 at Torgerson Drive in Fairmont sent one driver and a passenger to the hospital late Tuesday afternoon. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, all vehicles were traveling northbound when they collided on a wet roadway at approximately 5:40pm. A 2018 Cadillac XT5 SUV, driven by 91 yea...

An Amboy man suffered non life-threatening injuries when the pickup he was driving crashed into a building near Highway 169, a few miles southwest of Mankato early Tuesday morning. Seventy seven year old Gene Lawrence Blakesley was driving a northbound 2019 GMC Sierra on Highway 169 and was near the intersection with H...

An Elmore man has been charged on two counts of dissemination and possession of pornographic works of minors younger than age 14. Nineteen year old Tristan Aleman Hanson has been charged in Faribault County District Court following an investigation beginning September 11th when local investigators received a thumb driv...

The Fairmont City Council began initial discussions Monday on how to use the roughly $7.5 million in Local Option Sale Tax Funds collected since 2017. The money had previously been designated for a community center, but the Fairmont Community Center Foundation recently stepped away from the project. The Council was pr...

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