Willmar News

After the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, don't count on Cub Foods to help pare the price of gas at Holiday Stationstores.

25 year-old Daniel Loera made his first appearance in Kandiyohi County District Court on Monday.

Work along Highway 68 south and west of Minneota will eventually create a better habitat for area ducks.

WILLMAR, Minn. - Another step in the long development road of returning commuter rail to the Willmar-Twin Cities corridor occurred Wednesday night.

Authorities say a dispute with a tennant led a 57-year-old Willmar man to point a gun at another man, and then shoot and kill at least 5 puppies.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 11:38 am US/Central WILLMAR, Minn. A Willmar, Minn. man has been taken into custody and charged with assault and animal cruelty for allegedly shooting seven puppies.

Danny Duron Jr., 18, of Willmar, was sentenced Tuesday to 150 days in the county jail, 100 hours of community service and probation until his 21st birthday on two charges stemming from a May 21 incident that involved kidnapping a teenager and stealing his car from McDonald's parking lot.

A gas leak sent flames 30 feet in the air at an ethanol plant cooperative near Atwater.

A fire that started Saturday morning at an ethanol plant in Atwater, Minn. needed the assistance of nine different fire departments before it was put out.

COLD SPRING - Rocori built a 2-0 lead. It wasn't good enough, as Willmar rallied to tie the match 2-2. The Spartans built a 6-1 lead in the final set.

Kristen Jensen , of Savage, was recently honored by Ridgewater College-Willmar Campus in the third-annual Recognition Ceremony.

The Kandiyohi County Courthouse has been selected as a pilot site for a centralized court payment system for the Minnesota Judicial Branch.

Wes Hompe, chief engineer of Willmar Municipal Utilities, inside one of the wind turbine towers.

Share + Oct 10, 2009 8:30 am US/Central WILLMAR, Minn. 1 of 1 Today, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy based in North Carolina lists the turkeys on its "watch" list of domesticated fowl in decline.

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.

Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Two major streets in Minneapolis will remain one-way for at least one more day.

The lawyer of a Willmar man accused of fatally stabbing of a Ridgewater College student last year says his client was acting in self-defense. Miles David Edinburgh was 17 when he stabbed 21-year-old football player Adam Milton in July 2008.

The Lunar Crater Observatory and Sensing Satellite crashed into the moon 6:30 Friday morning, and six students were outside Willmar Senior High watching it through a telescope.

Deer Minnesota, get ready to see some s-s-s-now! Thanks for Lynn Seime who snapped this picture in the Black Hills of South Dakota Monday morning.

ANNANDALE - Led by the No. 1 doubles duo of Kelli Niebolte and Chelsey Watson, Annandale won all three doubles matches in a 5-2 nonconference girls tennis win over Cambridge Monday.