The Hutchinson City Council approved ordinance changes June 28 that would allow more options for the sale of liquor. Two major alterations to the city’s liquor ordinance were suggested by staff and ...

It didn’t take long to validate the Meeker County Sheriff Office’s latest investment in law enforcement technology. Just a few months after spending $30,000 to purchase equipment, the ...

The recently approved moratorium on solar and wind energy project continues to spark controversy among Meeker County Board members. Approved on a 4-1 vote during the board’s Feb. 6 meeting, ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

Minnesota Early Childhood Family Education programs have been helping parents and caregivers feel more confident in their roles for the past 50 years. Mary Myers-Reinarts, an early learning ...

School bus drivers play a vital role in the educational ecosystem, ensuring that students have access to safe and reliable transportation to and from school. But they have been in low supply in ...

Public transportation took a big step up in Meeker County with the addition of a new vehicle to Central Community Transit’s already-crowded bus garage in Litchfield. Using an $80,000 grant ...

By his own admission, Scott Rehmann wasn’t much of a student in high school. But he learned how to research – investigate – things pretty well during a law enforcement career ...

I speak from my heart. Your tears will be many, and your hearts will fall to the ground because of what will happen to me, but the world around you will have glad hearts. All of you will be ...

The robins are here. A very unusual phenomenon was observed in the sky, being a combination of rainbows, sundogs and halos continuing all afternoon. John F. Kaspar of ...

It won’t be long before Troy and Kelly Higgins, Mike and Shannon Lien and Ryan and Shannon MulQueeny are among the 12 local couples who will cha cha their way to fun, fame and fundraising ...

After almost three decades as a newspaper reporter, Stuart Groskreutz knows the ins and outs of interviews pretty well. Except when he has to answer, rather than ask, the questions. “That was ...