Kandiyohi News

On a cloudy day like today, it might be hard to see the benefit of solar panels.

A 73-year-old woman was attacked and robbed while cleaning inside the Crow River Church in northern Kandiyohi County Tuesday afternoon, according to the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office.

The upside of the system of electronically preparing and charging criminal complaints using the digital equivalent of signatures has been a savings of time, paper and energy in the charging process.

A 35-year-old Willmar man made his first appearance Monday on a felony charge for allegedly committing a sex act with a vulnerable adult male he met while driving a Kandiyohi Area Transit bus.

Butler Square and TCF Bank Stadium are, respectively, the oldest building and only football stadium to receive LEED certification in the United States.

Puppies happily squirmed as workers at the Tri-County Humane Society started to prepare them for adoption.

Authorities continued to search a swampy area of the Mississippi River bottoms in Red Wing for a man they described as "depressed and upset" who walked away from his home Sunday evening.

A nuisance ordinance that grew out of a homecoming prank gone bad goes before Kandiyohi County commissioners on Tuesday.

Local law enforcement are cracking down on drunk drivers and those without seatbelts during a Safe and Sober wave that will run through Labor Day.

Local law enforcement are cracking down on drunk drivers and those without seatbelts during a Safe and Sober wave that will run through Labor Day.

Kandiyohi County authorities are considering a measure that would help police deal with homecoming pranks.

Water infrastructure projects are moving forward in communities throughout the state with help from federal stimulus money.

Arnold "Arnie" Berdan, 73, of rural Winthrop died Friday peacefully at his home after a five month battle-with duodenal cancer.

Births reported Tuesday to the St. Cloud Times: PAYNESVILLE AREA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Miller, Grant and Cortney; Kandiyohi; boy; Monday, June 29, 2009.

About 25 county and law enforcement officials from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Redwood and Lyon Counties met June 18 in Slayton to discuss the best way to proceed with the Public Safety Answering Point consolidation study.

Courtney Voorhees will go to prison knowing she's been forgiven. Voorhees, 29, of Cottonwood, was sentenced in Lyon County District Court in Marshall on Tuesday to 41 months in prison on charges of criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular injury.

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Starting in July, the state will be boarding fewer prisoners in the Kandiyohi County Jail.

A Paynesville man has appeared in court on charges of felony insurance fraud. 40-year-old Brian Paglusch is charged with felony insurance fraud for having someone steal his ATV in order for him to collect the insurance money, then getting it back and hiding it.