Renville
(Monticello MN-) A Renville man is facing drug charges after a traffic stop in Wright County Friday led to the discovery of methamphetamine. The CEE-6 Drug and Gang Task Force says at 2:24 p.m. Friday they stopped a vehicle on I-94, 6 miles northwest of Monticello, and executed a search warrant on the driver and vehicle on the suspicion that he was trafficking drugs from the Twin Cities to the CEE-6 service area. In the vehicle officers found 120 grams of meth and cash believed generated by drug sales. The 42-year-old man from Renville was taken into custody and is in the Wright County Jail on 1st Degree Controlled Substance charges.
(KNSI) – A barn that once hosted Willie Nelson at the music festival Johnny Cash named is getting a new home, and the Regal couple moving it plans to bring that festival back. Scott and Becky Mueller plan to start pulling the 93-year-old barn across Highway 55 on Thursday...
Cosmos Fire, Cosmos Ambulance and the Meeker County Sheriff's Office all responded to a fatal head-on crash on Highway 7 Monday. David Teawalt, 65, of Minneapolis was the driver who died.
REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. (KEYC) - The Redwood Valley football team is undefeated this season as the team gears up for the Class AA state tournament. We caught up with the Cardinals prior to Thursday’s state match-up with Osakis.
(Willmar MN-) The ribbon was cut Tuesday morning on the new County Road 55 Bridge Overpass in southwest Willmar. At the ceremony at the site, Kandiyohi County Public Works Director Mel Odens said the bridge takes Kandiyohi County Road 55 over the tracks which were constructed as part of Willmar WYE project. Odens said it's been in the plans since 2014 and even earlier, when discussions first began about a railroad bypass around Willmar...
(Willmar MN-) The Willmar Fire Department has sold their old ladder truck to a fire department in Illinois. Willmar Fire Chief Frank Hanson says the Minooka fire Department of suburban Chicago bought the 27-year-old rig for $150,000, minus $15,000 for fees. Hanson says Minooka hired a shipping company to pick it up and ship it back to Illinois, and the truck was loaded onto a flatbed trailer last week.
Alexis Rothstein has taken the position as the community and economic development specialist for the 17 Mile EDC which includes Winthrop, Gibbon and Fairfax. Rothstein is originally from Delano. She worked in corporate accounting as a staff accountant for two years in Plymouth and started her contract with 17 Mile EDC on October 12.
Nov. 11---- The southeast portion of Willmar has been designated a 2027-2037 Opportunity Zone by the U.S. Department of Treasury, according to a news release from the. nominated 73 Minnesota census tracts, and all of those tracts will be officially designated as Opportunity Zones beginning Jan. 1, 2027. This federal...
Nov. 10---- announces a new chapter in its 116-year history with the selection of Darin Strand as its next president, according to a news release from the bank. Current president Clark Vollan will remain at the bank as its chairman and CEO. In 2001, Clark took over as president when his father Paul Vollan stepped into the role of executive chairman after serving as the bank's president since 1970.
