Rec Center preview THUMBS UP: Members of the New Ulm City Council took a tour of the improvements at the New Ulm Rec Center on Wednesday. The center, being expanded and improved through the RENU program, will have a lot more to offer when it is fully open. On Monday the fitness center ...

We love to look for heroes in the Olympics. Every four years athletes who have been dedicating themselves to training and competition don the colors of their various countries and see who is the best. This year Americans were counting on Simone Biles, considered the greatest gymnast of all ...

Brown County is unloading an old junker of a bridge, and saving taxpayers thousands of dollars in demolition costs. On Tuesday, the Board of Commissioners agreed to sell bridge 2110, which spans the Minnesota River west of Fort Ridgely, to Washington County for $1. It is a sterling example of ...

We are used to seeing great athletes powering through obstacles and setbacks, even physical injuries, on their way to greatness. We celebrate them for their courage. But we rarely see them struggling with mental pressure and self doubt, the kind that can be more crippling than the kneed ...

It’s official. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has adopted the so-called California standard for tailpipe emissions, and will mandate that auto dealers get more zero-emission vehicles on their sales lots. The rules were published Monday in the Minnesota State Register. The rules ...

One of the criticisms used by coronavirus skeptics is that the advice from the government keeps changing. They quote what Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts said in March 2020 and note how different their advice is today. “First they said masks won’t protect you. Then they said everyone ...