Elgin News

A commercial truck driver who has been convicted several times for drunken driving and other traffic violations ran a stop sign in southeastern Minnesota and crashed into a pickup truck, killing the pickup's driver, authorities said.

A federal agriculture official makes a stop in Minnesota announcing new funding for new farmers and ranchers in Minnesota and surrounding states.Deputy agriculture secretary Kathleen Merrigan makes the stop in Elgin today.The funding will be administered through the beginning farmer and rancher development program, which provides help to farmers ...

A federal Agriculture Department official in southeastern Minnesota is announcing $17 million in grants to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers.

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By now, many Minnesotans have picked apples at an orchard and savored a sweet Honeycrisp or a tart Haralson.

On Oct. 2, 2008, the beaten body of Muhidin Mumin, of Rochester, was found in a downtown Rochester alley.

Construction has begun on an 8-mile section of the Great River Ridge Trail from Elgin to Olmsted County Road 9, south of Viola.

Rollie Horsman has a simple secret to being so active at 90 years old -- stay inside his size 12 shoes and keep those shoes moving.

Twenty years ago, Ron and Betty Fahrenz bought a 40-acre palette on which to mix colors and plants to create their own version and vision of beauty.

Thieves took televisions from two houses in Olmsted County on Sunday. And, overnight Saturday, thieves snatched bicycles from garages in northwest Rochester.

An Elgin man allegedly shot another man's car in rural Plainview on June 29 because he was upset with the car's owner.

The family of a man killed in a November 2007 car accident near Elgin has settled its lawsuit against the driver of the other vehicle.

An Elgin man allegedly shot another man's car in rural Plainview on June 29 because he was upset with the car's owner.

John Shorter fled the milk barn on his rural Dover farm, blood running from his head.

A large, green, metal part of Millville's history is being torn down. Evan Briggs and Zane Zanschaic could see the old bridge as they fished below it in the Zumbro River last week.

The shoreline planting project around Rochester's Silver Lake has reached an important milestone.

Here's your invitation to the annual Country Breakfast on the Farm this Saturday at Shea Dairy Farm overlooking the little hamlet of Viola.

Dear Answer Man, there is an ice cream truck that visits my friends' neighborhood and I want it to come to MY neighborhood.

No criminal or traffic-related charges will be filed from a car crash that killed three in Haverhill Township on the Saturday of Easter weekend, the Olmsted County sheriff's office has determined.

Jessica List and Brent Ehrhardt of Rochester, a daughter. Erich and Kara Firzlaff of Elgin, a daughter.