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 ...

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 ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Farm-City Hub Club’s annual meeting and banquet recently highlighted the organization’s commitment to youth development in agriculture, awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial support to local programs. The Hub Club awarded six scholarships ...

NEW ULM — The Grand Center for Arts & Culture in New Ulm has opened a nonprofit matting and framing studio designed to provide affordable access to professional tools for preparing artwork for exhibition and sale. The studio is not a retail operation and is not intended to compete with ...

NEW ULM — Brown County Commissioners learned Tuesday that people in need of housing assistance sometimes don’t get it due to personal beliefs or feelings and how to navigate a complicated process they may be mired in. Commissioner Dave Borchert said homeless people have been found living ...