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WILLMAR — The City of Willmar announced today that 19th Street Northwest between West Trunk Highway 12 to north of the BNSF railroad tracks will be closed starting at 7 a.m. Thursday through 5 p.m. Friday this week for rail crossing improvements. Traffic will not be allowed through...

ATWATER — The Kandiyohi County Public Works Department has announced a section of County Road 2 in Atwater will be closed for road work beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, The Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway crew will be working on the railroad crossing on the road. The road will...

The railway crossing on County Road 8 in the town of Kandiyohi is closed until Tuesday afternoon for repairs. Motorists are asked to use alternate routes. According to the Kandiyohi County Highway Department, crews from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway began work this morning...

CLARA CITY -- BNSF Railway officials are cleaning up the scene of a train car derailment that happened Thursday southwest of Clara City. According to the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office, deputies and Clara City Police officers responded to a call of a possible train derailment at...

Police have identified the man found dead Saturday morning in the BNSF Railway yard in Grand Forks as 20-year-old UND student Blake Christopher Ayling. The preliminary investigation showed that Ayling was going through the yard when he was struck by a moving train. Although police...

GRAND FORKS -- BNSF Railway has suspended service in three eastern North Dakota cities because of flooding. The Grand Forks Herald reports that a floodwall is blocking the tracks in Grand Forks. A clay dike blocks tracks in Harwood. Service in Mayville is cut off at a bridge. Spokeswoman...

On behalf of the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners and the citizens of Kandiyohi County, we want to extend a public thank you to everyone for working together and assisting in the rescue of Cory Kluver on Feb.

WILLMAR -- Corey Kluver, 31, of Paynesville remained in serious condition Friday at St. Cloud Hospital following an accident Thursday in the rail yard in Willmar. Kluver is a BNSF Railway employee. Kluver was pinned under a grain car which weighed 221,000 pounds, more than 110 tons....