NEW ULM — Brown County Republicans heavily favored Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth for governor in a caucus straw poll at the New Ulm Community Center Tuesday. Demuth got 19 of 44 straw ballot votes cast. Kendall Qualls received nine votes. Getting four votes each were Scott Jensen, Mike ...

NEW ULM – Ryan Wilson, the running mate for Minnesota Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth in her campaign for Governor, stopped in New Ulm Monday to speak with voters ahead of precinct caucuses. Wilson is an attorney and previously lost a narrow race for state auditor in 2022. He also ...

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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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 ...