Peterson News

President Barack Obama announced Thursday that Minnesota would be one of 10 states to receive a reprieve from the federal education law No Child Left Behind .

Steve Sarvi, Rushford's new city administrator, knows he has a laundry list of issues that need resolution in 2012.

RACHEL O'SHAUGHNESSY captured top honors in the annual District Spelling Bee held in the R-P theater Tuesday, Jan.

The following non-confidential traffic and criminal cases from 1/10 to 1/16/12 were compiled from reports released from the Fillmore County Court Administrator's office.

The students each colored a picture of a duck, then told teacher Julie Peterson or Grandma Geneva Selin words beginning with the letter D. Geneva Selin - or Grandma Geneva, as the kindergartners know her - has been volunteering at Isanti Primary School as a Foster Grandparent for nine years.

A January cold spell in the mostly snowless Upper Midwest has forage agronomists worried about the winter survival of alfalfa fields in much of that region.

At a meeting of the Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation District Forestry Association held at the Fireside Inn in McGregor on Thursday, January 19, Jim Nynas, a representative of the Carlton County SWCD and the association's legislative lobbyist, guided unanimous support for a change in legislation to allow SWCD groups to buy spring seedlings ... (more)

A man accused of beating his 11-year-old son with boards as a means of punishment entered a provisional plea of not guilty Monday in Freeborn County District Court.

From turning out for blood drives to pitching in at homeless shelters, the Minnesota couple missing since last week's cruise ship disaster in Italy could always be counted on to help out, friends say.