NEW ULM – Around 100 voters attended the DFL precinct caucus at New Ulm High School Tuesday night. Caucus attendees had the opportunity to vote on a preference ballot for governor. The two DFL candidates are Amy Klobuchar and Christopher Seymore. In Brown County, Klobuchar won the straw poll ...

LAKE HANSKA — Casey Gulden of Hanska will probably remember his 15th birthday for a while. “I just turned 15 today. It’s my birthday,” he said after catching a five-pound northern, with a minnow on a small spoon lure. It was the heaviest rough fish caught at the Lake Hanska Ice ...

SLEEPY EYE – Sunday, a small ice fishing community sprang up on Sleepy Eye Lake for the Sleepy Eye Sportsmen’s Club 44th Annual Ice Fishing Derby. A little over 750 people registered to take part in the fishing tradition. Most of those fishing did so from inside ice fishing shacks, but ...

NEW ULM – At 1 p.m. sharp, the New Ulm Battery fired off a round outside St. Paul Lutheran Elementary, starting the 10th annual Amazing Race competition. After the starting gun, over 20 teams made a dash from the school to the parking lot and to their vehicles. To complete the race, each ...

NEW ULM — Brown County Human Services Director Anne Broskoff and Brown County Commissioner Dave Borchert shared a number of county program funding and immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) concerns they’ve heard from Brown County residents at the Tuesday county board meeting. Broskoff ...

HANSKA — After nine terms in the Minnesota Legislature, Republican District 15B Rep. Paul Torkelson of Hanska announced Friday that he will not seek re-election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in November. He will finish his current term that concludes in early January 2027, when a ...