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Kick off the first day of spring this Monday, March 20, at your local Dairy Queen in Faribault, Northfield and Owatonna with a free small ice cream cone. As a matter of fact, according to Today.com, this is a nationwide event that includes all participating non-mall Dairy Queen locations...

Normally you hear about colleges naming buildings after someone for something special they did for the university or private college. St. Olaf College announced Thursday they are removing the name of a professor from the arts building. According to the Star Tribune, since 2002 the arts building at St...

Wake up weekday mornings and have some fun listening for the Hit of the Day at 8:05AM and maybe win a $10 gift certificate to Froggy Bottoms River Pub in historic downtown Northfield. Make sure to write down the artist and song title of each Hit of the Day, then on Friday morning if you're the first person through on the studio lines with all five correct, you'll score that gift certificate to Fro

How good is the public grade school or high school you're sending your children to? I found a website called Niche that considers several parameters about each school and tabulates the results to see how they rate. According to their website, "The 2017 Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U...

After Executive Director Hayes Scriven announced he was departing to become the new executive director of the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wis., the Northfield Historical Society had to name a interim replacement. They didn't have to look very far as they named Cathy Osterman to the interim executive director post...

The Faribault, Northfield and Owatonna tourism directors received an award at the Explore Minnesota Tourism Conference recently. Faribault marketing director and Main Street program supervisor Nort Johnson will give us details on today's KDHL AM Minnesota program at 9:30AM...

Are you concerned with our enviroment? Would you like to get involved but don't really know where to start? The Cannon River Watershed Partnership would like to invite you to attend several local events concerning our waterways. DOWNSTREAM, an Environmental Film Series, is coming to Northfield on February 11, 18 and 25...

Northfield Shares, a community foundation centered on philanthropy, volunteerism and collaborative leadership, has selected 15 area nonprofits to receive grants for 2017. The organization issued a news release announcing the details and said $68,619 would be the total amount for the grants...

With cold weather making a repeat visit, and winter in general, you will often see cars warming up at work or in driveways so their owners can make that mad dash through the subzero temps and hop into a warm and comfortable vehicle. Recently we were talking about whether or not it was illegal to leave your vehicle running while you're not in it...

A Northfield teen who disappeared on Thursday night was found safe in River Falls, Wis., on Saturday night, and a man from River Falls has been arrested in that case. Northfield and River Falls police issued a statement saying they have arrested a 36-year-old man on a charge of child enticement, a class D felony...