Brownsville News

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor "I can't believe I've been doing this in Hokah for 30 years.

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor While attending his last meeting, Houston County Highway Engineer Marcus Evans provided the county board with some good news.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is giving away material dredged from the Mississippi River, the Corps announced today.

Editor's note: The following story appears in the Fall 2008 edition of Southern Minnesota, a regional magazine.

The man found dead Wednesday in his rural Brownsville, Minn., boathouse was a lifelong resident and former assistant fire chief of Houston, Minn., authorities said.

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. - The derailment of an Iowa, Chicago & Eastern railroad train near the small town of Reno early Tuesday is the railroad's third along the Mississippi River in far southeastern Minnesota or ...

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. - A train derailment in southeastern Minnesota near Reno could be related to the failure of a wooden railroad bridge.

A train derailment is stopping traffic in southeastern Minnesota. The alcohol tanker train derailed Tuesday morning on Highway 26.

A train derailment is stopping traffic in southeastern Minnesota. The alcohol tanker train derailed Tuesday morning on Highway 26.

A train derailment is stopping traffic in southeastern Minnesota. The alcohol tanker train derailed Tuesday morning on Highway 26.

A train derailment is stopping traffic in southeastern Minnesota. The alcohol tanker train derailed Tuesday morning on Highway 26.

A train derailment is stopping traffic in southeastern Minnesota. The alcohol tanker train derailed Tuesday morning on Highway 26.

The idea is a Mississippi River more like what it was before the locks and dams.

The idea is a Mississippi River more like what it was before the locks and dams.

Fifty years ago, Elsie Helke and her best friend Helen Hansen mounted their horses Tony and Duce and rode from Brownsville to the RCA rodeo in Clear Lake South Dakota.

The Environmental Management Program habitat project is located in a 1,000 acre backwater area just down river of Brownsville, MN.

Concerns about high water on the Root River and possible mudslides caused officials to strongly urge hundreds of residents in Houston County to evacuate this weekend.

Houston County Emergency Manager Kurt Kuhlers says a voluntary evacuation is under way for some parts of the county.

Houston County, Minnesota is asking residents in the Winnebago Valley area southeast of Caledonia to evacuate due to rising water levels.