Worthington News

Portions of Jackson County are in a severe thunderstorm warning until 9 p.m. Thursday.

The Department of Education reportedly denied a request by Pipestone Area Schools and other school districts in southwestern Minnesota to start the 2009 - 2010 school year on Monday, August 24.

Christiansen, Martha M.; age 76, of Spring Lake Park, formerly of Worthington, MN and Mankato, MN,; on June 27, 2009.

Though most states have child abuse laws allowing religious exemptions for parents who shun medicine for their sick children, recent cases have raised the thorny legal issues for parents following less-recognized faiths.

What started more than a year ago, in May 2008, has nearly come to completion in June 2009, as the streets of Lakefield scheduled for resurfacing - all 10 blocks of them - are complete.

Rumors that Fareway has backed out of coming to Fairmont are untrue, according to the grocery chain's chief executive officer.

Police in Worthington, Minnesota need your help tracking down a BB-gun bandit. The vandal has been driving around town and shooting out vehicle windows for the past two days.

Five current or former residents of Jackson County are in jail on drug charges following a string of arrests in Jackson and Lakefield this week.

A wind power company in southwestern Minnesota has announced it will eliminate 70 jobs this summer with another 90 layoffs possible by the end of September.

The transition from high school life - friends, activities, dependence on family - to college can be overwhelming for some students.

Minnesota OSHA will investigate an ammonia leak that sickened up to 50 workers at a pork processing plant in Worthington.

A story we've been following all day involves an ammonia leak which happened at the Swift Meatpacking Plant in Worthington, Minnesota.

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An ammonia leak at a plant in Worthington, Minn. sickened several workers Tuesday.

In Brewster, Minnesota people are now back in their homes after being forced to evacuate almost 24 hours ago.

Sometimes a wheezing economy has an upside. Officials with the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System found themselves on the brighter side of life after opening bids Thursday for a water treatment plant.

Residents in the town of Brewster, a few mniles northeast of Worthington, were evacuated late Saturday after a fire at the Minnesota Soybean Processors Plant.

The town of Brewster, Minnesota was the scene of a massive fire last night. Just before ten, a storage area at an ethanol plant erupted into flames.

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WORTHINGTON, Minn., - When Larry Proehl delivers temperature-sensitive cargo to new delivery locations on his regular route to the West Coast, he doesn't have to spend precious time looking for street signs and landmarks.