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WILLMAR –– Buses are now rolling up and down U.S. Highway 12 between Willmar and Litchfield three days a week, giving new transit options to people in Litchfield, Grove City, Atwater, Kandiyohi and Willmar who need rides to medical appointments, social services, shopping errands...

WILLMAR - Back in the day - like two weeks ago - drivers for the Kandiyohi Area Transit system would get a paper schedule with the day's riders before heading out on their routes. While pulled over during a pickup, they would take calls from dispatch about new ride requests or cancelled...

WILLMAR -- A new federal law that prohibits bus drivers from using hand-held cell phones while driving is expected to improve transit safety,...

WILLMAR -- Kandiyohi Area Transit is hiring an attorney to untangle a situation involving a bus driver who was cleared of criminal charges and who now wants his job back. In October Patrick Shawn Dokken, a 35-year-old bus driver for KAT, was charged with criminal sexual conduct involving...

WILLMAR -- A criminal sexual conduct charge against a Willmar man has been dismissed because the man who reported having sex with him is not a vulnerable adult. The third-degree felony charge against Patrick Shawn Dokken, 35, of Willmar, was dismissed Jan. 13 by the county attorney's...

WILLMAR -- A 35-year-old Willmar man made his first appearance Monday on a felony charge for allegedly committing a sex act with a vulnerable adult male he met while driving a Kandiyohi Area Transit bus. Patrick Shawn Dokken faces a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge in...