August

A Rochester man is scheduled to be sentenced in March for a felony conviction stemming from a fatal car crash near Zumbrota last year.

All of the counties in southeastern Minnesota reported unemployment rates below 3-percent last month.

Rising interest rates are apparently having an impact on home construction activity in Rochester.

There were some signs of stabilization in Rochester’s housing market last month, but across the region it remained very much a seller’s market.

There was a dip in new home construction in Rochester, but the boom in commercial construction continued last month.

Olmsted County was tied with Mower County for having the lowest unemployment rate in the region last month.

Job growth in Minnesota slowed last month, causing a modest increase in the jobless rate.

The State of Minnesota enjoyed higher than predicted tax collections in August.