Construction on Interstate 494 through Bloomington – and its outdated cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 35W – is slated to begin in June 2021. There will be a turbine interchange.

As golfers and local officials debate what to do with Litchfield’s 18-hole course, the city has had to confront a difficult truth: across the country, the sport’s boom days are over.

If you do most of your shopping locally, we thank you. If you go elsewhere ? online or to the Twin Cities or St. Cloud ? to purchase items that you can buy in Hutchinson, you need to know the ...

While population has shifted somewhat throughout the city during the past decade, Litchfield City Council members decided Jan. 18 that the changes were not significant enough to redraw ward ...

Being less than 48 hours away from boarding a plane at MSP en route to Paris, France, for the experience of a lifetime, I’ve finally found the time to make the first installment in what I ...

On Nov. 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand flight left Auckland for Antarctica on what promised to be a photographer’s dream trip. The 11-hour round trip was dubbed a luxury cruise at altitude.

As much as I appreciate my formal education and the doors it has opened, I treasure the lessons the people of Minnesota and its land have bestowed upon me. Lessons the sound of my dad’s ...

I always say there’s nothing more American than an amateur “town ball” baseball game. The smell of grilled burgers and hot dogs, the feeling of an ice-cold beer or soda in your hand, the ...

Hutchinson High School geography teacher Jennifer Anderson tells her students, “Geography is not just maps.” She recently received training from the Minnesota International Center to help her make ...

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Proverbs 6:6 Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who has died at age 92, is most famous for his contributions to evolutionary ...

T he classroom of Kirsten Morgan, a St. Michael Catholic School language arts teacher, looks a bit like a fitness club. Students bounce, rock, sway and roll on various ball chairs, teetering ...

Right about now, you’d pounce on just about any job. One that’s different than the one you have. A job that pays better, or offers flexible hours so you can deal with virtual ...