After 20 consecutive years shaking sweaty hands and waving to babies at the Minnesota State Fair, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her baby blue cottage-style booth is as much a fixture here as greasy cheese curds and costumed llamas. Arriving at the crowded Agriculture Horticulture ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order for the November elections. The legal wrangling is happening even as states start sending out mail ballots, leaving the administration little time to make big changes in mail ballot rules. “Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more ...
MARSHALL — Possible funding cuts by Lyon County could mean reductions in operations at the Marshall-Lyon County Library, according to agenda materials for this week’s Marshall City Council meeting. A discussion of 2027 library funding is on the agenda for Tuesday’s council meeting. Funding allocations for the library have been part of ongoing budget talks for the Lyon County Board of Commissioners this summer. The county is facing budget challenges like rising costs for insurance and health and human services. At earlier budget talks, Lyon County commissioners considered ...
TRACY — Area residents lined the streets in downtown Tracy to watch the 99th annual Box Car Days parade. The procession included everything from local businesses to the Miss Tracy royalty and the Tracy Area High School marching band. Monday events also included the Fly-in/Drive-in ...
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and House Speaker Lisa Demuth, two candidates running for Minnesota governor in November, broadly agree that the state needs to build more homes to increase supply and slow rising costs. In-back-to-back interviews with KARE 11 on Wednesday at the Minnesota State Fair, Klobuchar and Demuth said addressing rising rents and mortgages is a top concern and agreed that the state has too many regulations that are stymieing the construction of more homes. Klobuchar said the red tape around construction was what was hurting housing supply, while Demuth took aim at ...
SLAYTON — With the cost of housing inmates at the Lyon County Jail set to increase in the next couple of years, Murray County officials are looking for possible alternatives in the future. At this week’s Murray County Commissioner meeting, commissioners voted to have a building committee do an assessment of correctional facilities needs in the county. On Friday, Murray County Sheriff Heath Landsman said the committee could look at the feasibility of different potential options, including whether to build a correctional facility in Murray County, or possibly whether to try and ...
