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Willmar residents, especially those living in the southeast part of the city, are looking forward to the end of the old wastewater treatment plant along 19th Avenue Southeast. When the old wastewater treatment plant was built, it was on the edge of the city.

Biofuels company Poet LLC has bought an Indiana ethanol plant. The 90 million-gallon-per-year plant in Cloverdale, Ind., was opened and operated under Altra Biofuels for a short time in 2008. Privately held Poet did not give a purchase price for the transaction, which closed Tuesday. The...

RED WING, Minn. - Operators at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant north of here are investigating the cause of a turbine trip that led to the shut down of the plant's Unit 2 reactor early Tuesday morning. The reactor -- which was being returned to full power following the...

GRANITE FALLS -- City Council members on Monday approved contributing up to $1,500 toward the costs of surveying a portion of the possible Minnesota Valley Trail route between Granite Falls and Wegdahl. The citizens group known as the Minnesota River Valley Trails Initiative offered...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar Public Works Department is reminding property owners that discharging sump pump flows into the sanitary sewer system is a violation of ordinance and any property owner found in violation of the ordinance is subject to a fine of $100 per day. During the spring...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council will accelerate a study of using the old wastewater treatment plant for storm water management purposes. The council voted Monday to speed up Barr Engineering's storm water management analysis to coincide with the decommissioning process being...