Redwood Falls News

Thunderstorms with heavy rain have been zipping across the metro area and much of the southern half of Minnesota this morning.

The weather service issued a flash flood watch Wednesday, May 23 that begins at 7 p.m. and extends through 1 p.m. Thursday.

Kaylee Benson won a playoff to earn medalist honors at the Southwest Conference golf meet Monday in Redwood Falls.

From left are Nisswa American Legion commander Jim Starkey; Nisswa fire chief Richard Geike, who was named the Minnesota American Legion Firefighter of the Year; and Dell Draves of the Nisswa American Legion.

Republican legislators talked about the recently finished session at a town hall meeting before a handful of people Wednesday at the Sleepy Eye Community Center.

A Pine Island motorcyclist was injured in a collision with a semitrailer on U.S. 63 south of Rochester on Tuesday morning.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 14, 2012, at St. Raphael's Catholic Church in Springfield with burial at St.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Morgan.

Following four to six inches of rain that fell in the Cottonwood River basin over the past few days, the National Weather Service forecast the river to reach flood stage this morning and crest at 11.3 feet Wednesday evening.