Big Stone County News

A Big Stone County DFLer has filed to run for state Senate in a district that includes western and part of central Stearns County.

This should be interesting. For the first time, white babies are in the minority in the United States, according to new data from the census bureau.

By Tom Cherveny, West Central Tribune, Willmar, Minn. May 2--ORTONVILLE -- A rancher who voiced opposition to plans by the Strata Corporation to develop a quarry in Big Stone County will not have the lease renewed for the land where he grazes his cattle.

From scraping paint off old buildings to re-buttering the corn on the light poles, Dakota Wesleyan University's Service Day was see all over Mitchell.

The Big Stone County board has unanimously approved a proposed granite quarry on the western border of Minnesota.