NEW ULM — Downtown Minnesota Street was host to one of the warmest — but also wettest — Arctic Plunges Saturday. Since 2019, Lamplighter owner Herb Knutson has hosted an Arctic Plunge event to raise money for charitable organizations in the community. Typically the plunges are held in ...

BEIJING (AP) — Some 80,000 tourists are stranded in the southern Chinese beach resort of Sanya, after authorities declared it a COVID-19 hot spot and imposed a lockdown. The restrictions came into force on Saturday morning, as authorities sought to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the city on ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-based corporate owner of thousands of residential rental properties in several U.S. states is facing investigations about whether it improperly evicted tenants during the coronavirus pandemic, while it received millions of federal dollars aimed at keeping people ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has admitted accepting more than $42,000 in paycheck protection loans under a federal COVID-19 assistance program for businesses that were not engaged in substantial activity. Alexis Ransom, 24, of Logan, pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's annual Oktoberfest festival is finally on again for this fall, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the famous Bavarian beer festival said Thursday. "The Wiesn will take place," Clemens Baumgaertner told reporters in Munich using ...

We have turned the calendar to August. That means our summer programs are complete and we are gearing up for fall sports and activities and the start of school. New Ulm Public Schools start classes on Aug. 29. When we get to August, there is a concerted effort to finish summer cleaning, ...