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WILLMAR -- Municipal Utilities Commission members have been wanting to stop payments for Big Stone II after plans for the proposed power plant were cancelled last October. But Willmar Utilities...

This letter is in response to the West Central Tribune Oct. 27 article on the Big Stone II coal plant. I'd planned on running it into the ground again but...

WILLMAR -- Willmar Municipal Utilities General Manager Bruce Gomm says he's disappointed and worried about the demise of the proposed Big Stone II power plant and transmission line project. "We...

The remaining partners in a South Dakota coal-fired power plant that was to provide electricity to Upper Midwestern states announced Monday they were killing the project. Big Stone II participants...

WILLMAR -- The four remaining partners in the proposed Big Stone II project hope to replace Otter Tail Power Company of Fergus Falls after Otter Tail withdrew from the project...

An excerpt from recent editorials in Minnesota newspapers: By The Associated Press On Big Stone II: A decision announced by Otter Tail Power Co. to pull out of the Big...

WILLMAR -- The decision by the lead utility to withdraw from the proposed Big Stone II power plant project does not necessarily mean the plant is dead because another utility...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The utility leading an effort to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in South Dakota that would serve five states has pulled out of the project...

ORTONVILLE -- A Clinton man faces life in prison without parole after being found guilty of four of five charges stemming from an attack on a local woman and her...

WILLMAR -- The state Court of Appeals has vacated two of three prison sentences against David Wayne Opsahl, 36, of Big Lake, who was found guilty in January 2008 of...