Seven years ago, the state’s poultry producers had their flocks decimated by bird flu virus, a disease that poses little threat to humans, but can run rampant through poultry flocks. Around 9 million turkeys and chickens had to be destroyed, at a cost of $650 million, in order to contain the ...

Businesses honored THUMBS UP: The New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce has selected two of the city’s finest businesses as its Businesses of the Year for 2022. Chamber members voted at the annual meeting on Thursday to pick KNUJ-SAM Radio as the Small Business of the Year, and Windings, Inc. as ...

On two days this month, the state of Minnesota Department of Health recorded no deaths from COVID-19. On March 12 and March 16, zero deaths from COVID were reported. That is good, heartening news on the COVID front, but it carries a caution. Since a lot of reports to the DOH are delayed as ...

Students in a Byron high school classroom wanted to show their solidarity with Ukraine recently, after Russian troops attacked that country. So they asked their teacher if she would display a Ukrainian flag in the classroom. The flag went up and, incredibly, the high school administration ...

For years, whenever the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) held a hearing or public meeting on the Highway 14 project in this area, the main question was, “When are you going to start it?” MnDOT held another meeting in Courtland on Tuesday to answer questions about the ...

The theft of catalytic converters from cars has been growing over the past few years. The converters, part of the emissions control system, are coated with a variety of rare and precious metals to convert unburned hydrocarbons in exhaust into carbon dioxide and water. Thieves found that with ...