Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz joined Tyler Lorenzen, CEO of Puris Proteins, as the company held an event to mark the start of production at its new facility in Dawson. A $100 million investment by Cargill in Puris has allowed the company to upgrade the former AMPI plant into a state-of-the-art facility for pea protein.
Kendra Lindblad of Dawson has been acquitted of sexual contact with a child, charges for which she was indicted in South Dakota in October 2019. She was found not guilty by a jury late last week.
A grand jury in Lincoln County, S.D., returned an indictment charging Kendra Joanne Lindblad, owner of the Redemption Basketball Academy of Dawson, with two counts alleging sexual contact with a child and attempted sexual contact.
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. – A rising Minnesota River is spilling over roads and bridges in the upper basin, and authorities warn that more road closures are likely in the days ahead.
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn.-Brig. Gen. Lowell E. Kruse always wanted to do two things in life: be a soldier and a farmer.The 50-year-old fulfilled both of his lifelong ambitions. From 1989 to 2006, the husband and father of two operated a 70-cow dairy far...
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. - When attorney Janice Nelson of Montevideo emceed a conference in September looking at the region's workforce challenges, she announced at the start just how familiar she was with one of them.Her administrative assistant had ju...
APPLETON, Minn. - In a span of 16 days last month, workers removed and replaced all of the shelving, restocked them all, and poured 102 yards of concrete to build a new floor while keeping the doors of Don's Food Pride open for all but six and a ...
DAWSON, Minn. - The doctor was getting ready. Must look respectable, he told himself. Must be calm. He changed into a dark suit, blue shirt and tie and came down the wooden staircase of the stately Victorian house at Seventh and Pine that had alw...
MADISON -- Lac qui Parle County Sheriff Lou Sager has tendered his resignation 11 months after having moved from the East Coast to take the job. "It's time," Sager said. "At the end of the day I was hoping this to be a long-term, future thing. Th...
CLARKFIELD, Minn. - There are lots of ways to measure the changes of the past 100 years, but ask those who have witnessed them and you will learn that what matters most hasn't really changed.The Clarkfield Care Center held a party Wednesday in ho...
NEW YORK - It's estimated that one of every three rows of corn raised in western Minnesota is exported overseas.Some of those rows on Richard and Rachel Quenemoen's farm in Lac qui Parle County are now devoted to raising popcorn. It is shipped fo...
