SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye Fire Department Assistant Fire Marshal Shaun Heiderscheidt was surprised when he was recently named the 2025 Firefighter of the Year by the Minnesota American Legion. “It’s a helluva surprise,” said Heiderscheidt who lived outside the fire department’s ...

MARSHALL — Cleanup efforts are ongoing, after parts of Marshall got close to 8 inches of rain in the space of a few hours Friday night. Flooding from the downpour affected homes, businesses and even facilities like Marshall Middle School and the Avera Marshall Medical Center campus. “We ...

GRANITE FALLS — One person is dead after a plane crash reported Monday evening near Granite Falls, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said. Both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have been notified of the crash and will ...

MARSHALL — Eagerly anticipating for the routes to open after some early-morning rainfall, nearly 300 bikers began their trek on a five-day bike ride covering 250 miles Monday morning in the 2025 Ride Across Minnesota from Marshall’s Red Baron Arena, an annual fundraising event for multiple ...

MARSHALL — Some of the big challenges facing farmers in southwest Minnesota aren’t really new, but they have a big impact, speakers at a Tuesday agriculture panel said. In a study of more than 1,500 Minnesota farms, the median net income dropped 80% between 2021 and 2024, Chase VanKeulen ...

MARSHALL — There have been a lot of different kinds of art on display at the Marshall Area Fine Arts Council gallery. But even with that history, the gallery’s current exhibit is unusual. Carved wooden birds of all sizes are grouped together around the room. “We’ve never had a decoy ...