Author Archives: Austin

Unemployment remained steady for another month while Iowa's workforce continued to shrink. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.8% in July, unchanged since April and 0.2% lower than...

A Celebration of Life for Orville Frandle, age 93, of Blue Earth, will be Monday, August 19th, at 2pm, at Patton Funeral Home in Blue Earth. Visitation will be from noon until time of service at the F...

A Rochester man was killed in a crash west of Blue Earth Wednesday morning. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, at approximately 8:30am, 76 year old Lonnie Wayne Miller was driving a 2005 Chevrol...

Filing for the November 5th general election for those seeking to run for local offices ended on Tuesday. Running for mayor in Elmore are Zachary Dahl and Michael "Mike" Schutta. There are four candid...

A Funeral Service for Donald Nowak, age 69, of Wells, will be Friday, August 23rd, at 11am, at Nasinec Funeral Home in Wells. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the Funeral Home on Fr...

A Funeral Service for Janice Aukes, age 88, of Kiester, will be Saturday, August 17th, at 11am, at Nasinec Funeral Home in Wells. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the Funeral Home o...

A Funeral Service for Arnold "Arnie" Carlson, age 91 of Wells, will be Friday, August 16th, at 11am, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Wells. Visitation will be Thursday, August 15th, from 4-7pm, at...

During the primary election on Tuesday, two of the three candidates for Faribault County Commissioner in District 1 advanced to the November 5th General Election.  Gertrude Paschke and John Roper...

According to the latest USDA, National Agricultural Statistic Service - Crop Production Report, Minnesota corn production is forecast to at 1.42 billion bushels, down 6% from the previous year.  ...

Severe thunderstorms brought tornadoes, hail, wind and torrential rainfall to southern Minnesota Monday evening.  Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorms were issued as the storms rolled throug...