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If you have ever been at any community event across Olmsted County, there is a very, very good chance you have seen Kevin Torgerson there.

The parents of a 2-year-old Minnesota boy who needed an expensive power wheelchair turned to an unlikely source for help — a high school robotics team.

"It was kind of shocking. He had this 250-pound pig on his lap."

There may be a change in Rochester's ongoing battle against the emerald ash borer, the insect that is killing millions of ash trees around the country.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rochester John Marshall's Matthew Hurt is the Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year for prep boys basketball.
The award, voted on by a statewide media panel, was announced Monday. The 6-foot-9 senior forward played six varsity seasons for the Rockets, who lost in…

He was accused of raping a woman after offering the victim and her boyfriend a ride home from a downtown Rochester bar.

A former Twin Cities middle school principal has entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors in Dakota County to settle charges stemming from 5 separate cases that occurred over a 5-year period.

A woman is suing the Diocese of St. Cloud in a lawsuit accusing a Catholic priest of sexual misconduct.

Governor Tim Walz has signed a bill giving schools and students a break for all the days they missed due to this winter's bitter cold and heavy snow.

This is not an April Fools joke!

The Minnesota Senate has passed legislation to force drug companies help pay for the costs of responding to the opioid epidemic.

A Rochester woman is reporting a costly burglary.

An Oronoco woman says she dozed off while driving and struck a bicyclist - and then drove home.

Authorities say a 71-year-old Minnesota man has died while snorkeling with a family member in the Florida Keys.

A Faribault man was killed Sunday when he crashed his motorcycle head-on into a car while driving the wrong way on a Twin Cities freeway.

Nearly two years since his last time on a big league mound, Michael Pineda looked better than ever in his Minnesota Twins debut.

The Final Four semifinals are now set for Saturday, April 6th at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

A trial is set to begin for a Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault happening in the alley behind her home.