The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) today announced the recipients of the final round of Fast Track Grants for fiscal year 2011. Sixty-five organizations in 50 communities throughout Minnesota ...

By Ayanna Eckblad The High School on Saturday hosted the city's first home robotics competition. A total of 36 teams competed, coming from across Minnesota — as far away as East Grand Forks — as well ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. (KTTC) – The Albert Lea city council voted to move forward with funding to remodel the aquatic center and the city’s arena on Monday. Apex held a bid opening on January 30 and a ...

(ABC 6 News) — Albert Lea’s annual Big Freeze is returning on Saturday. Despite the cold, the community is gathering to celebrate and raise money for initiatives to make Albert Lea a better place for ...

(NEXSTAR) – What used to be your local Party City store may soon be selling books, recliner chairs, cowboy boots or discount merchandise. The party supply chain announced in December it would be ...

Albert Lea Adult Early Education will be offering free citizenship classes. Despite national news impacting immigrants nationwide, Penny Jahnke, Albert Lea’s Adult Early education coordinator said ...

A month after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in two years, Party City says it has found a buyer. In a Jan. 24 press release, the Woodcliff Lake-based specialty retailer ...

A Gopher 5 ticket worth $346,868 was sold in Hugo on Friday, and a $50,000 Powerball ticket was sold in Albert Lea on Saturday.

(ABC 6 News) — At Monday’s meeting, the Albert Lea City Council unanimously voted to approve a bid for remodeling the City Arena and Aquatic Center. The vote approved the low bid for the ...

Party leaders from the Minnesota House spent the weekend before week three of the Legislative Session negotiating DFL members’ return to the Capitol. This comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court ...

The shops they founded along Washington Avenue supplied workers in the city’s thriving lumber industry ... including Faribault, Mankato, Albert Lea, and Austin. Only in Rochester, where the ...