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Montevideo, Minn., woman dead in rollover crash, fire

DEGRAFF -- A 70-year-old Montevideo woman was dead when emergency responders arrived at the scene of a one-vehicle rollover crash this morning on Chippewa County Road 4 about two miles...

news / region Thu, Nov 17, 2011 - 4:05pm

Sarah Guggisberg, left, is shown with her son, Jacob. Guggisberg is seeking state and federal legislation that will assure that both parents are informed when there is an investigation of sexual abuse involving their children. (Submitted photo)

Clara City, Minn., mother campaigns for parental notification after son's abuse goes unreported to her

CLARA CITY -- Like so many young victims of sexual abuse, Jacob Gould kept it secret. For four years. "I wasn't aware of anything until 2009, Easter Sunday he came...

news / local / region Mon, Nov 14, 2011 - 12:00am

Angry over not being informed of abuse to her son, Clara City mother launches online campaign

CLARA CITY -- When a Clara City mother learned four years after the fact what authorities in Lyon County knew all that time- that her son had been sexually abused-...

news / region Tue, Nov 08, 2011 - 3:52pm

Court dismisses suit over Hawk Creek bridges

MONTEVIDEO -- A district judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit by Lone Tree Township landowners in Chippewa County challenging a decision by the Joint Ditch Authority for Hawk Creek to...

news / local / region Sat, Aug 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Pheasant numbers in west central Minnesota decline due to wet June, harsh winter

NEW LONDON -- Pheasant hunters in west central Minnesota will find fewer birds to chase this season, based on the annual, roadside counts conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural...

outdoors / local / region Tue, Aug 23, 2011 - 2:10pm

Woman survives explosion of rural Clara City home

CLARA CITY -- A rural Clara City woman was seriously injured, but is alive, after being pulled out from the rubble of her two-story home after it exploded early Saturday...

local Sun, Aug 14, 2011 - 5:47pm

Authorities search the Minnesota River Thursday for a missing Xcel Energy worker downstream of the Minnesota Falls dam. The worker apparently fell off the dam about 1 p.m. Wednesday. Tribune photo by Susan Lunneborg

Update: Authorities continue search for Xcel worker who fell off Minnesota Falls dam south of Granite Falls, MInn.

GRANITE FALLS -- A search continues in the Minnesota River below Xcel Energy's Minnesota Falls dam for a worker who fell off the dam and is presumed drowned. "We're preparing...

news / region Thu, Aug 11, 2011 - 10:19am

Yellow Medicine County will pursue discussions aimed at the possible transfer of the Minnesota Falls dam from Xcel Energy to public ownership. Xcel intends to remove the 105-year-old dam next year. Tribune file photo

Public ownership of Minnesota Falls dam?

GRANITE FALLS -- Yellow Medicine County will pursue discussions aimed at the possible transfer of the Minnesota Falls dam from Xcel Energy to public ownership. Board Chair Dick Wambeke, Granite...

news / region Wed, Jun 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Spring song may be falling silent on bomming grounds

WATSON -- It's getting noticeably quieter on the prairie each spring, much to the disappointment of Dave Trauba. Since 1999, he's been part of an effort to re-introduce prairie chickens...

outdoors / region Sat, May 28, 2011 - 12:00am

Clara City bookkeeper enters no plea

CLARA CITY -- A former Clara City bookkeeper charged with seven felony counts of theft by check stood mute during her first court appearance on the charges Monday in District...

news / region Tue, May 17, 2011 - 12:00am

Prairie Waters recently surveyed its members and found continued interest in a regional approach to promoting tourism, despite the loss of some members in the past year due to budget cutbacks. Lucy and Ben Tokheim row a hand-crafted Norwegian priam on Lac qui Parle Lake at the Minnesota Highway 40 bridge. The lake and adjoining wildlife area are among the region's natural resources promoted to visitors. Tribune file photo

Tight budgets thinned its ranks, but remaining members positive

APPLETON -- It is a challenge to keep a regional tourism collaborative together. Its member counties and communities sometimes have competing interests and differing ideas of what to do. And...

news / region Mon, May 02, 2011 - 12:00am

Shingo Yamane, right, a foreign exchange student from Japan studying in Clara City, and Glen Jacobsen, rural Bird Island, give Jacobsen's new Souris Canoe its maiden run April 23 on the Chippewa River. The river's bluffs offer a look back at more than 100,000 years of geological and glacial history in the area. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Chippewa River run: Trip offers modern perspective

The Chippewa River was back within its banks but keeping a sprinter's pace when the nine of us slipped two canoes and five kayaks into its current at Lentz's Landing...

outdoors / region Sat, Apr 30, 2011 - 8:01am

For Minnesota and Chippewa river communities, a sense of normalcy returns

MONTEVIDEO -- Sanitary sewer service was restored Monday morning to the Smith Addition in Montevideo as the floodwaters of the Chippewa and Minnesota rivers continue to recede. Sanitary service was...

news Tue, Apr 19, 2011 - 9:00am

Sanitary sewer service returned to Smith Addition in Montevideo as flood waters recede

MONTEVIDEO -- Sanitary sewer service was restored to the Smith Addition in Montevideo on Monday morning as the flood waters of the Chippewa and Minnesota Rivers continue to recede. Sanitary...

news / region Mon, Apr 18, 2011 - 2:14pm

The Chippewa River is shown Monday along County Road 18 in western Pope County. Submitted photo courtesy of Rebecca Webb, Glenwood

Chippewa rising

news / region Wed, Apr 06, 2011 - 12:00am

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