Hastings News

The Inver Grove Heights City Council gave its blessing to the latest improvements at the newly-christened Swing Bridge Park last week, bringing the total investment in the renovated park to more than $5 million.

HASTINGS, Minn. - A 17-year-old Burnsville boy is facing vehicular homicide charges in juvenile court for a crash that killed two teens and injured two others.

For many years, Darsow was the curator of the Pioneer Room at Hastings City Hall, where thousands of historical photos, documents and artifacts are stored.

William Simonbet, 7, slaps hands with Frederick Jarrell, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railroad, who, along with conductor Ben Goar, rescued William in May when the boy, who has autism, became trapped on the Mississippi River bluffs near Mounds Park in St. Paul.

After two years of construction, Hastings' "Big Blue" bridge, above, will make way for the new $120 million span across the Mississippi River, opening with one lane in each direction on Tuesday.

Maplewood isn't getting a cent in local government aid from the state of Minnesota this year.

Residents of Hastings soon will say goodbye to a landmark bridge. The U.S. 61 bridge has spanned the Mississippi River for six decades.

Less than 15 miles from Afton Alps Ski Area, this Hastings, Minnesota hotel features rooms with free Wi-Fi and 32-inch flat-screen TVs.

WMXJ disc jockey Ron St. John started off his life in broadcasting 48 years ago by playing the Four Tops record , an appropriate choice for a young guy giving radio a shot after nothing else had worked.

The new U.S. 61 bridge over the Mississippi River, right, sits next to the old one in Hastings in September 2012.

HASTINGS, Minn. - An Apple Valley man accused of strangling his pregnant wife will stand trial this fall.

Washington County appears to have won funding for a key trail bridge and gained power to develop bus transit.

HASTINGS, Minn. - A Minnesota man has been charged with three counts of criminal vehicular homicide in connection with a crash that killed his passenger last November.

You betcha, I must regularly buy fresh mozzarella from Cossetta's to make caprese salads to be eaten outdoors, preferably at Como.

Hastings Police are hoping that surveillance video will help catch a man who used a knife to rob a gas station Wednesday morning.

Hastings police are trying to track down a man who they say was caught on camera robbing a gas station with a knife man Wednesday and making his getaway on a bike.

A 35-year-old Hastings woman has been charged with allegedly driving with a blood alcohol content of over twice the driving limit with a 6-year-old child in the car, according to authorities.

Alfalfa and orchardgrass showed enough winter injury that part of the 20 acres was plowed up and put into corn at Strohfus Stock Farm, a horse-boarding facility.