The City of Blue Earth has a new City Administrator as the City Council has offered the position to Dawn Collins, who is the current Town Administrator of Plamer Lake, Colorado. Collins has accepted the city's offer, contingent upon final review of a complete employment agreement and final approval by the City Council,...

Two people are dead in the case of a deadly officer involved shooting in rural Albert Lea, in which the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is currently investigating. According to the Freeborn County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a domestic disturbance reported involving firearms at a home on 880th Ave...

The Blue Earth City Council held a special meeting on Tuesday to interview the four candidates for the City Administrator position. The four candidates interviewed were Town Administrator of Palmer Lake, Co, Dawn Collins, Chad Edwards, former village manager of East Palestine, OH, Jason Baker, City Administrator/Treasu...

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service released the crop progress report for Minnesota and Iowa for the week ending June 8th. Field activities included cutting hay and spraying crops. Corn planting in Minnesota is now complete, with 94% of the crop now emerged, compared to 83% last year at this time. Cor...

You can hit the water and cast a line for free this weekend in Minnesota. The DNR's "Take a Kid Fishing Weekend" starts Friday and runs through Sunday. During the weekend, Minnesotan's 16 and older can fish without a license if they take kids 15 or younger fishing with them. It's all to celebrate Great Outdoo...

A Mapleton man was found dead in his apartment early Tuesday morning. According to the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office, at approximately 2:11am, deputies and troopers responded to a vehicle off the roadway on Highway 22, south of Terrace View Golf Course. A witness said the driver, later identified as 47 year old T...

The 13th Annual KBEW/Darling Ingredients "Jam the Food Shelf" event is taking place this Thursday, June 5th, at the Cedar Inn Drive In in Blue Earth. The event will kick off at 8am and continues until 7pm. Both nonperishable food items and monetary donations will be accepted. There is also a silent auction f...

A Mapleton man was found dead in his home early Tuesday morning. According to the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office at approximately 2:11 am deputies and troopers responded to a vehicle off the roadway on Highway 22 south of the Terrace View Golf Course. The witness said the driver left the vehicle walking northbound ...

Two Fairmont men were sent to the hospital after two motorcycles collided last week in Clear Lake. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened on Wednesday around 9:05am in the 1900 block of U.S. Highway 18. The Patrol says 80 year old David Landsteiner and 81 year old Gerald Bohlsen, both of Fairmont were riding...

South Central Minnesota counties are rallying after the state announced it would cease funding the Minnesota Department of Corrections Sentence to Serve Program in mid June. The STS program is a sentencing alternative providing courts with the option to sentence selected nonviolent offenders to a period of supervised w...

The City of Blue Earth released the names of the finalists for the City Administrator position on Thursday. After an extensive recruitment and selection process, these four candidates have been named finalists: Jason Baker, who is currently City Administrator/Treasurer of Oronoco, current Lake Crystal City Administrato...

A Mankato woman was injured in a three vehicle accident on Wednesday evening on Highway 22, north of Beauford. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, at approximately 6:24pm, a 2010 GMC Sierra driven by 38 year old Bobby Lovern Betzing of Good Thunder, a Chevrolet pickup driven by a 17 year old male juvenile of St. C...

The grand opening of the Bravo Zulu House, the nation's first sober house exclusive to military veterans, was held Wednesday. Wednesday's program saw veterans telling their stories and thanking people that made the project possible. Representative Brad Finstad also spoke and presented a flag to Board Director Tim Murr...

A Fairmont woman was injured in a two vehicle accident Monday afternoon on Highway 169, near Lake Crystal. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, at approximately 2:45pm, a 2008 Volvo S60 driven by 71 year old Shelia Supalla of Fairmont was traveling southbound on US Highway 169 and a 2016 Subaru Forester driven by 2...

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service released the crop progress report for Minnesota and Iowa for the week ending May 25th. Corn planting in Minnesota was 97% complete, reaching that level 10 days sooner than 2024 and 10 days sooner than the five year average. Seventy eight percent of the 2025 corn crop...