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WILLMAR — June rains swelled lakes in Kandiyohi County to new record levels. In some cases, the waters were so high that those reading the gauges had to reset them. The gauges were underwater, said Ethan Jenzen, regional hydrologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources...

WILLMAR -- One never knows who will show up race day. Saturday morning in downtown Willmar, it was 2011 NCAA Division III Cross-Country champion Ben Sathre of Chaska. The 22-year-old spring graduate of the University of St. Thomas won the 18th-annual Foot Lake 4-mile run, hosted...

An ice house sank into Foot Lake near Robins Island late this morning and became almost totally submerged. Willmar Fire and Rescue Department...

WILLMAR -- Carl Gladitsch repeated and Katie Eggers moved up from third a year ago as each claimed a victory at the 16th annual Foot Lake 4 on Saturday morning. Each won a check for $100. Last year Gladitsch received a carved Canadian goose, a special prize discontinued and replaced...

WILLMAR -- Not since Willmar Mayor Ole Reynolds and Kandiyohi County board chair Virgil Olson stood before the cameras and supposedly sipped water from a dipper pulled from Foot Lake in 1983 has water quality in the lake gotten this kind of attention. Roughly every two weeks during...

WILLMAR -- The heat was on Saturday morning as runners and walkers left downtown Willmar for the four-mile run around lower Foot Lake. Most...