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Southern Minnesota to pay penalty for air violations

RENVILLE -- Air quality and storage tank environmental rule violations at the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative processing plant near Renville have resulted in a $50,400 civil penalty from the...

news / region Fri, Jan 07, 2011 - 12:00am

Xcel Energy is planning to remove the Minnesota Falls dam located on the Minnesota River downstream of Granite Falls. It provided a reservoir of cooling water for a coal-fired power plant that is no longer operated. Submitted

Plans to remove vintage dam pose costly dilemma

GRANITE FALLS -- Plans by Xcel Energy to remove a dam of 1905 vintage on the Minnesota River present a costly dilemma for an area ethanol producer. An engineering study...

news / region / business Wed, Jan 05, 2011 - 12:00am

Tests on Monte wolf not complete

MONTEVIDEO -- It could be a year or more yet before it is known for certain whether the 81-pound canine found killed alongside a Chippewa County roadway last March is...

outdoors / region Fri, Dec 31, 2010 - 12:00am

Bruce Gilbertson retired as fisheries supervisor for the Spicer office of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He's served as supervisor in Spicer for the last 16 years of a 36-year career in fisheries. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Hook was set long ago

SPICER -- As certain as a fish taking the bait, Bruce Gilbertson was destined to make fisheries management his career. He basically grew up in a fishing boat. His grandfather...

outdoors / local / region Fri, Dec 24, 2010 - 12:00am

Paul Otto has led Sibley State Park as manager for just a few days shy of 10 years. Its mix of woodlands, prairie, and wetlands and its hilly terrain offers the best of everything, he said. Tribune file photo

The perfect career landing

NEW LONDON -- A career of more than 35 years with the Minnesota state parks system hasn't made it any easier to answer the question that has made Paul Otto's...

outdoors / local / region / state Fri, Dec 24, 2010 - 12:00am

DNR early retirements to be felt in region

ST. PAUL -- Two managers responsible for some of this area's most highly-regarded and popular resources have left the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as part of a retirement incentive...

outdoors / local / region / state Fri, Dec 24, 2010 - 12:00am

Granite Falls Council looking at $2.8M sewer system upgrade

GRANITE FALLS -- It will cost an estimated $2.8 million to correct deficiencies in Granite Falls' aging sanitary sewer system. City Council members are committed to moving forward with the...

news / region Fri, Dec 24, 2010 - 12:00am

This is the first time in more than 40 years that it is possible to hunt geese at the Lac qui Parle refuge. The December hunt at the refuge is being looked at as a learning experience, but hunters have praised the expanded opportunity it represents. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Lac qui Parle Refuge in December

WATSON -- Hunting geese in December takes some adjustment and, as we discovered, some cooperation from Mother Nature. For the first time ever, there's a December goose hunting season at...

outdoors / region Sat, Dec 18, 2010 - 12:00am

Friendship tour wins statewide contest with $25,000 prize

MONTEVIDEO -- A project designed to foster friendly relationships between up-streamers in the Minnesota River Watershed with down-streamers from the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin area has received the most...

news / region Wed, Dec 15, 2010 - 10:33am

Flood project moving forward in Granite

GRANITE FALLS -- Granite Falls is moving forward with plans for protecting Prentice Street homes along the Minnesota River south of the former City Hall site. At the regular meeting...

news / region Thu, Dec 09, 2010 - 12:00am

MPCA awards $4M in grants and loans for water quality projects

news / local / region Wed, Dec 08, 2010 - 12:00am

No corn cob harvest is lesson in biomass economics

BENSON -- Chippewa Valley Ethanol is leading the way in proving the technology and economics of biomass energy. This year's lesson was all economics. The company did not harvest corn...

news / region Wed, Dec 08, 2010 - 12:00am

Mike Witt, left, of Runnings Farm and Fleet shows a gun to Art Norby in the store's sporting goods department on Wednesday. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Hunting Works in rural Minnesota

WILLMAR -- A hunter's heart can be found in the great outdoors, usually right after he or she has left lots of greenbacks in the great indoors. The average hunter...

outdoors / local / region Sat, Dec 04, 2010 - 12:00am

Event celebrates Ukraine heritage

MONTEVIDEO -- A "Ukrainian Christmas in the Village'' will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Historic Chippewa City in Montevideo. The 32nd annual event is hosted...

news / region Wed, Dec 01, 2010 - 12:00am

MN River - Lake Pepin friendship tour chosen as finalist in statewide contest

MONTEVIDEO -- A project designed to foster friendship between "up streamers" from the Minnesota River and "down streamers" from the Lake Pepin area has been chosen as one of three...

news / region / outdoors Tue, Nov 30, 2010 - 10:01am

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