It was June 19, 1937 when violence erupted outside Republic Steel's Stop 5 plant on Poland Avenue. Workers had picketed for weeks as part of the nationwide Little Steel Strike, a bitter battle over union recognition. Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube refused to follow industry ...

The seeds of the Antebellum period in the United States were planted many years before the Civil War would tear the country apart.  "For the newly independent United States, the first order of business was to establish a national government," explained Roger Micker, president of the ...

NEW ULM — In 1852, a number of young men and women of Wurttemberg, Germany, decided to devote their futures to aiding the development of a new world they called America. The group emigrated from Germany to New York City, but didn’t like it much, so they moved west to Chicago. Attending ...

Editor’s note:  It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. In many ...

NEW ULM - For Madelia Health President and CEO David Walz, the decision to open a location in New Ulm just made sense. Family Nurse Practitioner Cameron Ryer was a big part of the decision. “Cam is more from this area and towards Sleepy Eye,” Walz said. “And he has a big following, ...

NEW ULM -- Nuvera has come a long way from its beginnings 120 years ago as a telephone company started by a bunch of local retired farmers. “It was a new kind of technology at the time done in front of the Grand Hotel,” Nuvera President and CEO Glenn Zerbe said. “Today we deliver state ...