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Local Republican lawmakers are reacting to the legislative session that came to a close Monday night.Representative Steve Dra...
Minnesota lawmakers have adjourned a session that produced $2 billion in tax hikes and a historic vote on gay marriage. T...
The City of Rochester got some good news when funding for the expansion of the Mayo Clinic was included in the final tax bill...
The Minnesota Legislature is meeting over the weekend as the clock counts down on the regular session. The House and Senate a...
Democratic Minnesota lawmakers Thursday reached an agreement on a tax package that is the linchpin of the next state budget.T...
With just a few days left in the legislative session, the DFL majority says the final budget will be good for the entire stat...
The Minnesota Senate has passed a bill allowing the unionization of home child-care workers in Minnesota after an all-night d...
Republican State Senator Jeremy Miller of Winona said he voted against the gay marriage bill Monday because he went along wit...
Among recent appearances in Buffalo County Circuit Court in Alma...19-year-old Jeremiah Littlehawk of Solon Springs, Wis., fo...
A positive vote on the gay marriage bill in the Minnesota House Thursday has not changed a Winona area lawmaker's opinion...
Next up for the bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota is a scheduled final vote in the state Senate. The Senate vote is ...
Next up for the bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota is a scheduled final vote in the state Senate.The Senate vote is s...
Republican State Senator Jeremy Miller calls an expected Senate decision on legalizing gay marriage a tough vote for him.Mill...
The clock is ticking, but are legislative leaders paying attention?Republican State Representative Greg Davids says there'...
A bill introduced by First District Representative Tim Walz to give military retirees the honor they deserve passed through t...
The Winona County Sheriff's Department has received national recognition for the department's 50 years of membership ...
The Minnesota House has passed a bill requiring all public school districts to create policies aimed at reducing bullying.The...
The Minnesota House has scheduled a Thursday debate and floor vote on the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.Hou...
The Winona League of Women Voters will hold its annual meeting Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. at Betty Jo's Restaurant.One of the...
The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department says four people were taken into custody in Galesville Saturday and jailed on...
27 year old Blake Dennis of Alma was bound over for trial on felony charges of child abuse and causing death of an animal by ...
The Cochrane-Fountain City School District saved enough to pay off a $750,000 bond debt balance for money that was used t...
A local lawmaker says he his some concerns about a Democratic minimum wage bill that passed out of the House Ways and Means C...
Starting Wednesday, Gundersen Lutheran Health System becomes Gundersen Health System...the latest area provider to drop relig...
As Winona authorities continue to investigate a sexual assault involving a 23-year-old woman in her own residence, Police Chi...
Residents of Buffalo and Trempealeau counties will have an opportunity to rid themselves of unused or unwanted prescription d...
A Houston, Texas area man must serve nearly 20 years in prison for enticing a 9 year old Rochester girl he met online into po...
State Senator Jeremy Miller of Winona says he will be forced to vote against a Mayo Clinic expansion proposal in Rochester be...
A State of Manufacturing survey conducted by Enterprise Minnesota shows Winona firms continue to be optimistic about the futu...
Minnesota Senate Republican Leader David Hann is calling a Democratic tax plan unveiled Tuesday uncalled for.Hann says the pl...
The Winona Community Health Clinic, a monthly free clinic for people who are uninsured or unable to pay for healthcare, will ...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation will host a public meeting in Winona Wednesday on a project to improve the pedestr...
Republicans in the Minnesota House are calling the Health and Human Services bill that passed on Monday a bad bill.While Demo...
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar announced that her bipartisan provisions to boost high-tech innovation were included as part ...
Minnesota House Democrats want to trim the state's contribution to a Mayo Clinic expansion proposal in Rochester by about...
State Senate Republican Leader David Hann has announced his support of the Destination Medical Center proposal in Rochester.H...
Winona Health is conducting a brief survey about the Urgent Care Clinic hours.Currently, Urgent Care hours are Monday through...
Winona County Board members have given one of Winona County's longtime employees special recognition for her years of ser...
Winona County Board members have given one of Winona County's longtime employees special recognition for her years of ser...
Senate Minority Leader David Hann was in Winona Friday to visit with fellow Republican State Senator, Jeremy Miller, and loca...
Representative Greg Davids says he can't support the changes being proposed to the Mayo Clinic expansion bill.The House T...
Minnesota House Democrats are proposing $250,000,000 in property tax relief including a boost in refunds available to hom...
Minnesota lawmakers returned to the state capital in st. Pul today (Tuesday) following their spring break with a lot still on...
The bill to assist the Mayo Clinic in a major expansion is back before a Minnesota House committee where it hit turbulence la...
Volunteers are being sought for next weeks Shelter Drill at Lincoln High School in Lake City.The Winona/Wabasha/Goodhue Count...
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Winona issued a statement following the announcement by the Mayo Clinic that St. Mary&#...
Republican Representative Greg Davids says lawmakers need to pick up the pace in the remaining seven weeks of the session, fo...
The Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services had a chance to hear from local citizens, health care provider...
The Mayo Clinic's treasure trove of medical records is getting even bigger.Since 1966, Mayo has collected as many records...
Minnesota House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Daudt says the proposed DFL Senate budget released last week raises 2- billio...
The AgStar Fund for Rural America, a corporate giving program of AgStar Financial Services, has awarded over $63,000 to t...
The Annual Winona County Developmental Achievement Center's Auction and Casino Night was a big success.The event was held...
Mayo Clinic officials are working with lawmakers to come up with a Plan B for funding its Destination Medical Center proposal...
Governor Mark Dayton has announced that the seven member board for MNSure, Minnesota's health insurance exchange, will be...
Winona County is the sixth healthiest county among Minnesota's 87 counties. That's according to a 2013 report prepare...
An estimated 1,300,000 Minnesotans will benefit from legislation signed into law Wednesday by Governor Mark Dayton, including...
Republican State Representative Greg Davids is calling on his fellow lawmakers to get behind the proposal to expand the Mayo ...
The Winona Community Health Clinic, a free clinic, will be open Tuesday, April 2nd, from 4:00 -8:00 p.m.The clinic provides f...
Republican State Representative Steve Drazkowski is criticizing majority democrats for delaying work on important issues like...
The Minnesota House has passed a bill creating an online health insurance marketplace that aims to give at least 1.3 million ...
Winona County's population has gone up a little according to County Recorder Bob Bambenek.Bambenek said revised census fi...
Governor Mark Dayton released a revised budget plan that, he says, responsibly resolves the state's budget deficit and ma...
Two local lawmakers from opposite parties appear to agree that the budget should come first before social issues.Democrats in...
The Minnesota Senate has approved a bill to create the state's health insurance exchange. Lawmakers voted Thursday night ...
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton hasn't decided whether to keep a proposed sales tax expansion intact but says he expects to an...
The two-term chairman of the Minnesota College Republicans is the latest from his party to support legalizing gay marriage in...
The Minnesota House has passed a bill establishing Minnesota's health insurance exchange, with its sponsor calling it the...
Saint Mary's University is offering two new majors in collaboration with the Mayo School of Health Sciences.Beginning as ...
The Minnesota House has passed a bill establishing Minnesota's health insurance exchange, with its sponsor calling it the...
The latest budget forecast shows an improving budget picture in Minnesota and with the improvements Eliot Seide with AFSME Co...
A Status of Women report from the Women's Foundation shows that one third of Minnesota women are sexually assaulted in th...
Minnesota's projected budget deficit for 2014-15 has shrunk to $627 million, which is down more than 40% from the las...
Mayo Clinic reports a strong financial performance in 2012 as the Minnesota-based health care provider added more employees a...
A Saint Mary's University graduate was found dead in a rural area of the Mississippi delta on Wednesday. Coahoma County i...
A highly anticipated bill that would make same-sex marriage legal in Minnesota has been announced at the state Capitol.Legisl...
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Winona is one of six service organizations across Minnesota to receive a state grant to ...
The Mayo Clinic has an AA credit rating and proven strength in attracting gifts as it prepares to embark on an ambitious expa...
Republican Senator Jeremy Miller of Winona has introduced, bipartisan legislation to provide $20,000,000 in state bonding...
Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill giving tens of thousands of state employees a 2 percent raise. The contracts include the f...
The Legislature has sent Gov. Mark Dayton a bill that will allow about 250,000 Minnesota taxpayers to claim new federal tax d...
Random households in Winona County recently received a community health assessment survey by Winona Health and Winona County ...
The 20th Annual Women's Resource Center Gala, "A Black and White Affair", will be held next month.The event wil...
First District Congressman Tim Walz is urging the House to reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act which wa...
The Mayo Clinic proposal for government help toward a major expansion in Rochester has eased past its first of many committee...
With President Obama this week calling for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $9 an hour Democrats in the Minnes...
The Buffalo County Zoning Committee says it intends to have rural zoning and mining policy changes in place by the time a mor...
The Mayo Clinic proposal for government help toward a major expansion in Rochester is making its first committee stop in the ...
The Minnesota House this week passed a Tax Conformity bill that would extend recently enacted federal tax deductions to Minne...
Representatives of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system go before the House Higher Education Finance and Poli...
More than 35,000 low income Minnesota residents are a step closer to becoming eligible for a subsidized health insurance prog...
A reminder Parents of children with disabilities in Winona are invited to the Winona Area Public Schools' Special Educati...
University housing rules in Wisconsin are changing.This fall, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will allow male and femal...
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will hold a listening session in Stewartville next Tuesday, February 12th to gather i...
Winona Area Public Schools will soon be mailing out kindergarten registration information to addresses they have on file.Fill...
Parents of children with disabilities in Winona are invited to the Winona Area Public Schools' Special Education Parent A...
Winona Heath is eyeing the creation of health insurance exchanges required by the federal government by 2014 and expects them...
The Mayo Clinic is pressing Minnesota state lawmakers to direct more than $500 million toward an ambitious development pr...
Minnesota's health insurance exchange has launched a new web site to connect with more than one million Minnesotans who a...
As lawmakers in St. Paul begin hearings this week on the Governor's budget proposals, DFL State Senator Mat Schmit of Red...
Winona Health and Winona County Public Health are working together on a community health assessment of Winona County resident...
The deadline for Wisconsin farmers to stand up and be counted is approaching.The U.S. Census of Agriculture is done every fiv...
Governor Mark Dayton says he is under no illusions about how difficult it will be to get his proposed budget through the legi...
Winona ORC Industries will be one of the Minnesota businesses featured on this coming Sunday's episode of "On the Ro...
State Representative Greg Davids is expressesing some concerns over the proposed budget that Governor Mark Dayton unveiled Tu...
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is continuing her fight to help Minnesota families impacted by the Russian government's r...
The Winona Community Health Clinic will be open Tuesday, February 5th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.The free clinic provides pre...
18-year-old Erik Patterson of Gordon, Wis., was sentenced to a year of probation in Buffalo County Circuit Court after pleadi...
Mayo Clinic has been recognized by a national publication again.For the 10th straight year, Fortune magazine has named Mayo C...
Representative Greg Davids says he fears huge tax increases when Governor Mark Dayton unveils his budget proposal next week.D...
State Representative Greg Davids says he has some concerns about the state healthcare insurance exchange legislation unveiled...
Republican State Senator Jeremy Miller of Winona says he expects Governor Dayton's proposed budget will include more taxe...
Republican State Senator Jeremy Miller of Winona says he expects Governor Dayton's proposed budget will include more taxe...
The United Way of the Greater Winona Area says free tax preparation will be available for low and moderate income residents s...
With Governor Mark Dayton set to release his budget proposal next Monday, State Representative Steve Drazkowski says Minnesot...
This weekend's gun show in Rochester drew larger crowds than usual.About 2,700 people attended the Minnesota Weapons Coll...
There is a new program in Winona with a mission to repair the damage of sexual and domestic violence.The Mending Project, acc...
A bipartisan group of Minnesota lawmakers has unveiled preliminary plans for the state health insurance exchange that will be...
ORC Industries in Winona has received a $7,500 grant from Xcel Energy to fund the ORC's Skills, Education and Trainin...
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobachar had a chance Monday to see the National Child Protection Training Center in Winona up close a...
Further public health studies of frac-sand mining in Buffalo County will be limited to requests for additional information so...
The Winona City Council meets next Monday, January 7th, and it’s first agenda of 2013 is a light one.The council will v...
Former First District Congressman Tim Penny says he was disappointed with the last-minute compromise Congress came up with in...
First District Congressman Tim Walz issued a statement after voting in favor of the Senate-passed bill to avert the fiscal cl...
Winona Health says Physician's Assistant Emily Tracey will be joining the Pediatrics Department full-time in January.Trac...
The U-S Geological Survey is advising residents in southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa to be on the lookout for a lo...
The City of Arcadia is paying tribute to the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting.Supreme Graphics, based in ...
Count Howard Bicker among those taking careful stock of the sputtering fiscal cliff talks in Washington.The executive directo...
Winona Salvation Army Thrift StoreHiring Part time - Store Clerk/loading positionStarting salary: $7.50 an hour with sick...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adopting the "Upper Mississippi River Fisheries Plan - 2010 - Conserva...
Mayo Clinic is lobbying state lawmakers to build support for a new, possibly first-of-its-kind tax incentive program aimed at...
State Representative Steve Drazkowski was honored by fellow Minnesota House Republicans recently as they elected him Assistan...
Congressman Tim Walz is calling on leaders in the U-S House to bring forward a bill that will extend middle class tax cuts ri...
Matty's Place has achieved the first step in becoming a fully accredited child advocacy center.Matty's Place is locat...
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to enticing a 9-year-old Rochester girl he met online into posing nude and emailing him the ph...
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is calling on the House of Representatives to take immediate action on the 2012 Farm Bill.Sen...
The National Child Protection Training Center in Winona and Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse announced what is ...
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and Representatives Tim Walz and Betty McCollum have introduced bipartisan legisla...
The Winona Community Health Clinic will be open Tuesday, December 4th (tomorrow) from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.The free clinic p...
The Fillmore County Sheriff's Department says a large number of animals were removed from a farm property on Thursday fol...
Sentencing has been set for January 24th for a 49 year old man who was found guilty in Winona District Court of fifth degree ...
About 240 volunteers from across the UW-La Crosse campus will ring bells to raise money for The Salvation Army Saturday, Dece...
Winona Area Public School district residents are being reminded that the deadline to take part in an online survey is Decembe...
Republican Allen Quist is calling on the House to pass the Farm Bill now. Quist, who lost to Democrat Tim Walz in the First D...
The Winona Health Urgent Care Clinic is celebrating five years of service to the community.The clinic is open seven days a we...
The Red Kettles are out in Winona as the Salvation Army begins its annual fund drive during the Christmas season.Spokesperson...
Trempealeau County taxpayers should see the county portion of their property tax levy go down next year.The Trempealeau Count...
The Winona City Council tabled an agenda item Monday that would have given eligible city employees to take advantage of a pha...
Congress is back in session and among the major pieces of legislation still not done is the approval of a new Farm Bill.Chuck...
The City of Galesville will be getting a new health care clinic in 2013.The Trempealeau County Times reports Gunderson Luther...
Gov. Scott Walker says Wisconsin will not set up a health insurance exchange under President Barack Obama's Affordable Ca...
The Winona Area Public School District will need to reduce expenses by an estimated $1,675,000 over the course of the 201...
The Winona Health Auxiliary will hold an informational program on Healthcare Directives next week.The program will be held on...
Nearly one of every five people in Buffalo County is 65 or older as growth of elderly residents exceeds both state and nation...
Minnesota House Republicans have picked Rep. Kurt Daudt as their new minority leader.KTTC TV reports the 39 year old was chos...
Democrats who won legislative majorities in Tuesday's election picked their top leaders Thursday.House Democrats picked c...
HIMSS Analytics has announced Winona Health has achieved Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Adoption ModelSM.As o...
Winona County Recorder Bob Bambenek will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Lewiston Area Chamber of Commerce an...
Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will travel to La Crosse Friday for a grassroots event at the University of Wisco...
The attorney for the Minnesota St., Mankato, football coach who faces child pornography charges says county officials found n...
St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck has joined a network of hospitals connected with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.Official...
The Buffalo County Health & Human Services Committee has said it would not support extending a moratorium on frac sand mining...
The Winona County Sheriff's Department is investigating a sexual assault that was reported Sunday evening.The Winona County A...
A new poll in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race shows that well more than half of respondents didn't recognize the name Ku...
Winona Health's Lewiston Clinic will be holding a Flu Shot Clinic for adults and children on Monday, October 22nd from 4 ...
Minnesota's Roman Catholic bishops are urging churchgoers to donate money for television ads in support of a constitution...
Absentee voting has begun in Minnesota for voters who can't make it to the polls on Election Day, November 6th.State law ...
The Mayo Clinic is announcing an affiliation with the Chicago-area's NorthShore University HealthSystem.The multi-year ag...
Six felony counts of possession of child pornography have been filed in Winona District Court against a 51-year-old Winona ma...
Minnesota Senator Al Franken says the Senate is expected to pass a bill designed to improve health care access to rural veter...
Buffalo County County supervisors have passed four frac sand mining reorts back to department committees for proposed actions...
A public health agency in Buffalo County has recommended extending the moratorium on new sand mining permits for up to five m...
St. Mary's University says one hundred volunteer students will be out and about Saturday in commemoration of the universi...
The Winona Community Health Clinic scheduled for Tuesday, September 4 has been cancelled.No explanation was provided for the ...
A La Crosse County supervisor is among five men arrested in a prostitution sting.Police say the five answered an online ad an...
Augsburg College is publicly opposing the amendment to ban gay marriage in Minnesota's constitution.The announcement Tues...
Winona Health announces its Winona Community Free Clinic will be open on Tuesday, September 4th, from 4 to 8 p.m.The clinic, ...
Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy says Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is facing a deep depression and has a lot ...
A campaign spokesman for state Sen. Mike Parry says Parry has conceded to Allen Quist in their 1st District House primary.Ben...
Winona County is continuing the transition of its home health care program to the private sector. Merilee Hazelton updated th...
Mankato city leaders have voted to oppose an amendment to the state constitution banning marriage by people of the same gende...
Nearly 13 million Americans, including many Minnesotans, are getting rebates for medical health expenses from insurers.State ...
Mayo Clinic has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused Mayo of billing the government for thou...
A 55 year old Lewiston man has been summoned to appear in Winona District Court on September 11th on felony charges of sexual...
Independence Police said a suspect in an alleged sexual assault of a minor has been caught. The police department said 26 yea...
The Independence Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a man who is wanted on sexual assault char...
Republicans Mike Parry and Allen Quist are sharpening their attacks in an increasingly bitter primary fight in southern Minne...
Public health officials in La Crosse County will use part of a $450,000 state grant to persuade more landlords to ban smo...
Minnesota state lawmakers are reacting to the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act.Democra...
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The Home and Community Options production of Sound of Music just had its final performance Tuesday and HCO is reporting the m...
Mayo Clinic is expanding its territory. The Rochester-based Mayo says it's reached a tentative deal to acquire Fairview R...
Democrats in Minnesota's congressional delegation are in a bind over a bill by Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen to elimi...
The Rochester Police Department made more than $61,000 in 2010 on seized cash and forfeited property they sold, according...
The Winona Community Health Free Clinic will be open on Tuesday, June 5th from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.The clinic, located on the se...
A doctor, now living in Winona, has pleaded guilty to allegations that he had sex with a patient in Iowa and has been given a...
A jury has found Mayo Clinic was not negligent in its care and treatment of a 13-year-old girl who died after having a benign...
Muslim civil rights leaders are asking the FBI to investigate racist graffiti spray-painted on the driveway of a Somali-Ameri...
The executive director of the National Child Protection Training Center in Winona joined a panel of experts Wednesday to test...
A former Mayo Clinic in Rochester employee will serve three years of probation for stealing patient information from the heal...
Health concerns are prompting officials to begin evacuating employees from the Goodhue County Public Health building in Red W...
State Representative Steve Drazkowski says people using fraudulent welfare ID cards better be on the lookout.Drazkowski says ...
The father of a 13-year-old girl in Mantorville who committed suicide says he was initially stunned when authorities decided ...
Minnesota. Gov. Mark Dayton Friday vetoed a Republican tax bill containing breaks for businesses that would have been paid fo...
The Kasson police chief confirmed that a 13-year-old Kasson-Mantorville middle school student took her own life on Sunday. Po...
The Minnesota House has approved a tax bill that has become a linchpin in end-of-session negotiations. The House passed the b...
Police in Rochester have a suspect in custody after a man was stabbed repeatedly in a downtown park.Officers were called to C...
Minnesota First District Congressman Tim Walz says he's very concerned about the impact a proposed GOP budget would have ...
Minnesota's tax revenues are running a little ahead of forecast levels. An update Tuesday from Minnesota Management and B...
DFL lawmakers at the state capital are calling on the Republican majority to focus more on jobs and the economy plus property...
The Winona County Sexual and Domestic Violence Primary Prevention Project is inviting the public to attend a special event th...
The Minnesota Senate has passed a bill that uses money from a state settlement with HMOs to restore $22 million in cuts m...
Winona County Administrator Duane Hebert says we will have a drug court operating in Winona County by the end of 2012. Fundin...
A regional pharmacy chain headquartered in Austin is acquiring seven additional drug stores including stores in Rushford and ...
A La Crosse man has been sentenced to a year in prison for hiding the body of a drug overdose victim.Fifty-seven-year-old Rob...
The Minnesota House has passed a Republican-sponsored bill to reduce and ultimately eliminate state property taxes on busines...
Republican Representative Steve Drazkowski calls the Tax Bill passed in the House Wednesday a potential game changer for busi...
A wrongful death trial in Olmsted County focuses on whether Mayo Clinic staff failed to adequately protect a psychiatric pati...
Minnesota House and Senate Democratic leaders continue to voice their concerns about the lack of action on their proposed job...
Iraq President Jalal Talabani has completed medical care in Rochester.Mayo Clinic spokesman Bryan Anderson says Talabani had ...
A judge has terminated parental rights for a southern Minnesota couple who spent six months in jail for chaining their 5-year...
The president of Iraq is in Minnesota for medical care. Mayo Clinic confirms President Jalal Talabani is in Rochester this we...
Winona Health says its next free Winona Community Health clinic will be held on Tuesday, May First.The clinic provides preven...
Minnesota lawmakers are considering making it a felony to sell certain synthetic drugs meant to mimic controlled substances a...
Republican State Representative Greg Davids says the budget surplus announced Wednesday sends a message to businesses seeking...
A new economic forecast shows Minnesota has a $323 million budget surplus.The Associated Press obtained the figure Wednes...
State lawmakers are hoping for good news this week when budget officials release an updated projection of Minnesota's fin...
The issue of establishing a health insurance exchange in Minnesota under President Obama's federal health care bill, cont...
The Minnesota House Monday passed an emergency bill to close a loophole in sex offender law in response to the upcoming relea...
A bill introduced last week in the Minnesota House calling for a Health Insurance Exchange may spark a battle between two Win...
A bipartisan bill establishing a Health Insurance Marketplace in Minnesota has been introduced at the state legislature. DFL ...
A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge has ordered the Mayo Clinic to reinstate an employee who complained about...
State Representative Steve Drazkowski says workers in Minnesota should have the right to decide for themselves if they want t...
The House has passed a bill to ban members of Congress and executive branch officials from insider trading. But critics from ...
Republican State Representative Steve Drazkowski says he'd like to see state employees start to contribute something to t...
In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are working with more than a dozen community organizatio...
The 10 member Buffalo County Committee of the Board is back at the table trying to figure out how to cut expenses and raise r...
Some recent cases in Buffalo County Circuit Court20-year-old Jesse Bignell of Schofield, Wisconsin, formerly of Durand, has a...
A 25-year-old Alma man wanted for drug trafficking voluntarily turned himself in at the Buffalo County Sheriff's Departme...
Elected officials statewide in Wisconsin have been watching a case in Eau Claire County that involves retirement contribution...
DFL leaders at the state capital are reacting to the Republican reform proposals for the 2012 legislative session saying they...
Rushford residents will not see an increase in their city property taxes after the city council approved a no-increase proper...
The Winona County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a new program designed to keep many offenders out of jail and o...
A former Trempealeau man has been sentenced in Trempealeau County Circuit Court to 20 years in a Wisconsin prison after plead...
A 45-year-old woman was sentenced to 216 months in prison for producing child pornography. Donna Mary Zauner pleaded guilty t...
The Winona County Developmental Achievement Center is currently accepting donations for its 5th Annual Auction and Casino Nig...
The Minnesota Crime Victims Reparations Board has awarded more than $2.5 million to 1,200 violent crime victims and/or th...
The Buffalo County Health & Human Services Department has passed a review by the state health department in achieving Level I...
The Fountain City Council has approved a 2012 budget without increasing its property tax levy. The city's tax levy was set a...
The number of children in Minnesota who don't have health insurance continues to rise. A new report from Georgetown Universit...
Governor Mark Dayton Tuesday signed an executive order establishing a special task force to examine the problem of bullying i...
Winona County residents should see a reduction on the county portion of their property tax bills for 2012. That's because the...
Visit www.ringbells.org or call 450-8746 for information on how you can help.Volunteers are needed starting on Tuesday.
Buffalo County taxpayers will see a slight increase in their county property taxes under a proposed 2012 budget approved earl...
The Winona Area Humane Society raised a large amount of money during its 11th Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction event at...
Governor Mark Dayton has signed an executive order establishing a Vision for Health Care Reform in Minnesota. The order charg...
One of the keys to creating more jobs in Minnesota is new technology in the health care field. Minnesota House Democratic Min...
Animal shelters across the region say the economy is also taking a toll on pets. Officials at Humane Societies say they're ne...
A bill that would improve care for veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury has passed the House of Representatives. Th...
A bill that would improve care for veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury has passed the House of Representatives. Th...
A new national study ranks Minnesota among the least affordable for child care, with a $9,900 annualaverage cost for a ce...
Hundreds were gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis for the Occupy Minnesota demonstration Friday....
State budget cuts are forcing a southeast Minnesota dental clinic that serves the needy to closeits doors. Main Street Manage...
The Mayo Clinic has announced the first expansion of its Minnesota medical school, a campus in Arizona. The clinic is collabo...
The Mayo Clinic is looking for ways to connect with patients around the world and is exploring anexpansion to India. Clinic s...
The Winona Health Auxiliary will hold an informational program on Healthcare Directives on Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in t...
A Rochester massage parlor associated with prostitution and sex trafficking has shut down. According to the Post-Bulletin of ...
Winona State University officials report enrollmentis the highest ever in the school's 153 year history of the institution......
The owner of a West Salem auto body shop is accused of sexually assaulting a customer whose vehicle he had just repaired. For...
The Buffalo County Board in split votes approved hiring of two full-time custodians to work at the county courthouse in Alma....
The Independence Party of Minnesota is opposing a 2012 ballot measure that would ban gay marriage in the state constitution. ...
A policy that requires big state contractors to check new employees' immigration status is back inplay. Gov. Mark Dayton let ...
Winona Police are investigating a case involving another counterfeit bill. Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams said a phony $...
A Wisconsin priest is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl while he was in La Crosse for a canon law conference. A c...
The Cochrane-Fountain City School District expects to see payroll costs drop by at least $381,000 a year under a new stat...
US Senator Amy Klobuchar announced that her bipartisan legislation banning the synthetic drug 2C-E cleared the Senate Judicia...
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton Wednesday signed a new budget that ends the nation's longest state government shutdown in the ...
The Winona area's only Democratic lawmaker in St. Paul appaprantly found a lot not to like in the budget deals that ended Min...
State Representative Greg Davids of Preston says the tax bill, signed by Governor Mark Dayton as part of the budget compromis...
Buffalo County is asking for zero percent increases in property tax dollars used to build county department budgets for 2012....
With temperatures pushing into the mid-90’s and heat indices well over 110F, the Winona County Red Cross, in cooperatio...
A new two-year Wisconsin budget keeps the lid on local property taxes by holding the line on new taxes for county government....
DFL leaders at the state capital are blaming Republicans for the state government shutdown that occurred at midnight Friday. ...
Local lawmakers are reacting to the lack of a budget bill Thursday and the shutdown of many government services. Republican R...
House DFL Leader Paul Thissen and Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk, joined Governor Dayton at a State Capitol news conference ...
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has passed the $66 billion state budget, sending it to Gov. Scott Walker who p...
The La Crosse Common Council has passed an ordinance that decriminalizes possession of a small amount of marijuana. The counc...
Republican Representative Greg Davids says television ads targeting him as being unwilling to raise taxes to balance the stat...
Gov. Mark Dayton says he won't let two of his cabinet members go before a Republican-led panel of state lawmakers to talk abo...
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar's bipartisan legislation to assist victims of sexual trauma in the military has gained the su...
The Wabasha Clinic has a new name this week but its services to the community are expected to remain the same. The Wabasha Co...
It will be illegal in Minnesota to sell or possess certain synthetic drugs starting July First, 2011, after a drug bill was s...
With Republicans and Democrats in St. Paul at an impasse when it comes to solving the $5 billion budget deficit, lawmaker...
A 40-year-old Melrose, Wisconsin, man is facing 40 felonies in Jackson and Manitowoc counties related to alleged sexual assau...
A 24-year-old Augusta, Wisconsin, man is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at knifepoint. Stephen A. LeMere w...
State Representative Gene Pelowski says he has seen some hopeful signs that Republican lawmakers and the Democratic Governor ...
Minnesota U-S Senator Al Franken wants to see some new laws regulating the information that cellphone companies can glean fro...
Legislation banning state reimbursements for contributions to political campaigns is on its way to the Minnesota House floor....
Members of the public will get a chance on May 24th, to weigh in on Winona County's updated Water Management Plan when the bo...
President Barack Obama says he's monitoring the tensions in Madison. That's where protesters are criticizing efforts to elimi...
A bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights from nearly all Wisconsin public employees haspassed the Legislature's b...
At least half of Gov. Mark Dayton's fix to Minnesota's budget deficit comes from higher income taxes on the wealthy. Dayton o...
A local lawmaker says he wants Minnesota welfare recipients to pass a drug and alcohol test in order to qualify for receiving...
An increasing number of Iowans traveling to Minnesota for medical care at the Mayo Clinic is upping costs for the state's lar...
Prosecutors say a western Wisconsin man accused of sexually assaulting a woman bought her a birth control pill and a sympathy...
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton Thursday vetoed a Republican-crafted bill with $900 million in state budget cuts. Dayton has crit...
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a Republican-crafted bill with $900 million in state budget cuts. Dayton has criticize...
First District Congressman Tim Walz says cutting veterans benefits is not the way to help solve the nation's budget problems....
House DFL legislators say they are opposed to Republican attempts to repeal pay equity laws for women. Twenty-two Republicans...
The Winona County Veterans Services office says it will use a state grant to take its services on the road around the county....
The Mayo Clinic has opened an information office in Ecuador, its fourth international administrative services location. Offic...
Minnesota senators have pressed through a bill to slice $930 million from a much-larger state budget deficit. On a party-line...
A new report says at least 28 people died in Minnesota last year as the result of domestic violence including a Lewiston woma...
A $155 million proposal to renovate the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis stands little chance of getting any help from s...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is targeting state employee benefits and entitlement programs to help balance Wisconsin's bud...
The Minnesota House has approved $1billion in state budget cuts that would reduce aid payments for local governments, college...
State Representative Greg Davids has introduced a bill that would give Minnesotans who want to pay more taxes an avenue to do...
Governor Mark Dayton says that eligible Minnesotans will begin receiving improved Medicaid benefits on March 1 under an expan...
Republicans at the state capitol say they are putting their initial one billion dollar budget cutting proposal on the fast tr...
The Minnesota Department of Transpoation says motorists using Interstate 90 in the Dresbach area will experience some intermi...
A report released by a left-leaning Twin Cities think tank says low and moderate income families are shouldering more of the ...
The man who authorities say gave a woman a ride from New York to Winona in exchange for pornographich images of her young dau...
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