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The Winona Community Foundation Board of Directors have announced the Winona Hims as the 2010 Founders Award recipient.

Winona State University’s Health Promotion, and Student Health and Counseling Services cosponsor “Healthy Mondays” series, which begins Sept. 13.

Winona State University’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity  sponsors Bruce Jacobs’ “Race Manners for the 21st Century: Getting Real About Race in Everyday Life,” at 7 p.m. Sept. 13, in Kryzs

Women in Business presents River Valley Newspaper Group’s Senior Advertising Manager Lisa Faulkner for “What Type of Message are You Putting Out? Branding 101” and luncheon at noon Sept. 16 at W

It's the first home game of the high school football season. The chalk lines are fresh on the freshly mown field, bouncing cheerleaders stir excitement in the gathering crowd ...

It will be the first - and probably the last - time Cotter High hosts a home football game on its own field.

Winona Public Library staff gave amnesty a new meaning earlier this week after accepting a book at least 35 years overdue without charging a late fee.

A Winona County child molester has been indefinitely committed to a state sex offender facility.

Rachel Swanson has a taste for adventure, if not the perfect body. Dominic Gill has adventures to spare, and a special bicycle built for two.

The Winona County Sheriff's Department is looking for the owner of a 15-foot canoe deputies recovered last month on the Mississippi River.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources accepted a $100,000 check Thursday from Coca-Cola for improvements at Bear Head Lake State Park near Ely.  Talk about this topic

To say that July was a good tourism month for Duluth is an understatement.  Talk about this topic

A new charter school in Tower-Soudan is one step closer to becoming a reality after state regulators approved the application for the Vermilion Country School.

A blast of cool air settled over parts of Minnesota's Arrowhead early Thursday, sending temperatures below freezing in a few areas for the first time this season.  Talk about this topic

As part of the Duluth East "Hound Pack," junior Kat LaFleur spent some of her first day at the school helping freshmen learn the ropes. But the former Central student also was finding her own way on Thursday.  Talk about this topic

Dan Hartman put fellow his fellow Duluth city councilors on notice Thursday that when they meet Monday, he'll seek authorization to levy more in property taxes than Mayor Don Ness' administration has requested.  Talk about this topic

Imagine the scene. A cool September morning on the shores of Lake Superior. A peach pre-sunrise sky. Migrating shorebirds peck at bugs along the sand beach. ou blink awake and slide out of your tent. Barefoot, you walk in cool sand down to the beach. You splash some water in your eyes. Ah, morning in Duluth.  Talk about this topic

Neither Pat Sajak nor Vanna White will be there, but if you want to meet them someday on "Wheel of Fortune," Hinckley is the place to be today.

GIRLS SWIMMING Century 98, Austin 82 Century winners 200 medley relay: Century (Miranda Cunningham, Jennifer Strom, Nina Tabatabai, Christina Drexler) 1:56.94. 200 freestyle: Claire Anderson 2:01.26. 200 IM: Strom 2:19.08. 50 freestyle: Drexler 25.85. Diving: Lindsey Kilen 135.45. 100 butterfly: Tabatabai

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints took a page from the Minnesota Vikings' playbook and used it to outslug the Vikings on the NFL's opening night Thursday at the Louisiana Superdome.