The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s 2026 road construction season includes more than 200 projects that will help improve and maintain Minnesota’s roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure; improve safety and [...]

The Southern Minnesota School of Music is facing possible closure by the end of April due to a major funding shortfall. School leaders say they lost more than $100,000 in [...]

The Minnesota hockey community is mourning longtime Wild reporter Jessi Pierce and three kids. The four family members died in a house fire in White Bear Lake on Saturday. Pierce [...]

Mankato Area Public Schools(MAPS) has been awarded a Cardiac Emergency Response Plan (CERP) Assistance Grant from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) to strengthen emergency preparedness and response across the [...]

A section of Riverfront Drive, between East Main and Plum Streets in Mankato, will close tentatively starting Wednesday, March 25, as crews begin removing the deck of the Veteran’s Memorial [...]

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is closing several state highways and Interstate 90 in South Central Minnesota at 6:00 p.m. tonight. Snow and strong winds are creating blowing and drifting [...]

The City of North Mankato is declaring a citywide snow emergency effective at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 15. During the snow emergency there is no parking on city streets so [...]

The Minnesota Department of Transportation invites the public to attend a construction open house on Thursday, April 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Wells Community Center, (189 2nd [...]

The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota invites children and caregivers to experience a week of playful discovery during its upcoming Spring Break programming. Designed to spark curiosity and inspire joyful [...]

Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) recently approved five grants totaling $25,000 for projects that support youth mental health in rural Minnesota. SMIF awarded the grants based on ideas shared by southern Minnesota residents during the 2025 Rural Voice conversation, a discussion [...]