Okabena News

Local emergency responders were called to the scene of a shooting Thursday afternoon in Okabena.

Okabena is the place to be for all-day Independence Day fun, starting with a classic car show at 10 a.m. and wrapping up with a grand fireworks display at 10 p.m. The 2009 Okabena Community Fourth of July Celebration continues a longstanding tradition of Independence Day events and activities in the proud little community in northwest Jackson ...

This past Saturday, June 20, the Jackson County Birdwatchers were invited to Dale and Sue Adena s farm in rural Okabena.

It was a near perfect night for racing action this past Saturday at the ASA Sanctioned Jackson Speedway for Riverside Sinclair/Houseman Oil and The Performance Center, both of Estherville, Iowa, race night.

Four of the six men arrested in Jackson County last week as part of a two-day drug ring bust appeared in Jackson Countya TMs Fifth Judicial District Courtroom Monday.

A truck that took to the ditch on Interstate 90 Saturday morning after experiencing mechanical trouble caused a small grass fire that required the Okabena Fire Department to extinguish.

A big weekend is coming for Jackson County students whose years of schooling now just await one final assignment: to accept the long-awaited symbol of all their accomplishments, a diploma.

Lakefield and many other area communities plan Memorial Day services on Monday, May 25, at varying times throughout day.

Big turnout for Camaro event A good crowd turned out for Kemna-Asa Auto Plazaa s classic car cruise-in event and unveiling of the 2010 Camaro Monday evening.

An Okabena man accused of growing marijuana in his basement is out of jail after posting $5,000 bond.

The Heron Lake Fire Department and Heron Lake Ambulance Service responded to a house fire at 1032 County Road 9 in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

Last year the closest of Minnesota's 42 tornadoes all bypassed Jackson County to the north.

The Heron Lake Watershed District is leading the effort to address the 32 impairments identified by the Environmental Protection Agency in a recent study of the West Fork of the Des Moines River Watershed.

The District 84 Board of Education unanimously approved a three-year contract for a new superintendent on Tuesday.

Federal stimulus money will pay for repaving of the parking lots at Interstate 90's Clear Lake and Des Moines rest areas in Jackson County, according to a list of state projects announced Thursday by the ...

Joining a growing trend across the state and nation, a Jackson County school district is considering adopting a four-day school week.

All signs point to federal funding of a new $390,000 bridge in Jackson County as part of the nationally touted economic stimulus package, county engineer Tim Stahl told commissioners Tuesday at their board ...

Two people were injured in two separate single-vehicle rollovers off Jackson County roadways Saturday morning.

Jackson man nabs FCA Co-opa s December prize A Jackson man was the winner of FCA Co-opa s 100th anniversary prize drawing for the month of December.

Each January, when ponds and lakes freeze thick, Tim Graf passes on what he knows about the days before everyone has a refrigerator, when ice was harvested like a winter crop to keep food cold all summer long.