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Mankato - In just a couple months, Madison Avenue will be filled with orange cones and heavy equipment.

Consumer misconception is the biggest challenge facing today's pork industry. As a volunteer for Minnesota Pork Board's Operation Main Street program, Jenna Davis, Cokato, is trying to educate consumers to clear the air surrounding pork production.

MANKATO, Minn. - The 4-day school week will soon be coming to the Sleepy Eye school district, after the board voted unanimously for the measure last night.

MANKATO, Minn. - Calpine Corp., a major U.S. energy company, is abandoning plans to sell its natural gas plant in Mankato.

MANKATO, Minn. - The judge in the Nibbe murder trial will allow just about all of Jennifer Nibbe's statements to police, including some of the most shocking.

A sense of community made all the difference for Samantha Phillippi when she decided to enter the 2012 Miss Coon Rapids Scholarship Pageant.

Mabel Schleif, the 92-year-old St. Paul driver convicted last week in an accident that badly injured two road workers, was sentenced Tuesday to probation and a $1,000 fine.

Florida processing firm buys 51 percent of Northern Star Northern Star Bank in Mankato has had a lousy few years.

MANKATO, Minn. - Republican candidate for Congress Sen. Mike Parry says, "You get to talk to them.

MANKATO, Minn. - It has been about 2 weeks since Mankato teen Shelby Tweten stole the heart of many American Idol fans with her beautiful voice and inspirational story of her battle with depression and bipolar disorder.

Tangled oak tree arms team up with warm sunshine to draw attention upward atop the Sibley Park hill.

A beam that newspapers from 1881 and 1927 describe as part of the gallows used in executing 38 Dakota Indians in Mankato has for decades been stored away.

Michael Greibrok, center, of Albert Lea, was assigned Tuesday to work with Reps.

Tim Tupy admits that his worst fears building up to the release of the first batch of beer from Mankato Brewery was that it wouldn't go over well.

15. Gerbing earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication. She is a graduate of Winnebago Lutheran Academy.

Michigan Tech scored six goals in the first period and coasted to a 7-3 Western Collegiate Hockey Association win over Minnesota State, Mankato on Saturday.

Thanks or no thanks to the lack of appearances of Old Man Winter this season, there will be no River Valley Dutchmen snowmobile hill climb this winter.

MANKATO, Minn. - Crime statistics for 2011 have been released by the Mankato Public Safety and other local law enforcement agencies.

Parents are outraged after nearly two dozen 5th graders at Washington Elementary School in New Ulm, Minn., were caught playing a game called "rape tag," WCCO TV reports .