Deja Denise Padilla pleaded guilty Tuesday in Renville County District Court to a charge of third-degree murder in a woman's overdose death on Nov. 13, 2021
FEMA announced that federal funds will be available to communities that are rebuilding and recovering from severe storms and flooding earlier this year
Houston Morris, 39, of Olivia, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Renville County District Court to a charge of second-degree murder without intent, and an amended felony second-degree assault charge
OLIVIA, Minn. - A trial is scheduled to start Wednesday, Sept. 5, for a central Minnesota man accused of grabbing the steering wheel of a car driven by his girlfriend and causing an accident that severely injured the woman, as well as himself, wh...
OLIVIA, Minn. - The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed child pornography convictions against a 32-year-old man in a Renville County case after ruling that a search warrant that gave investigators access to his cellphone was invalid.Daryll Ge...
OLIVIA, Minn. - Renville County is turning to an eye in the sky to help it enforce Minnesota's new buffer law.Pictometry of Rochester, N.Y., will be providing the county with enhanced aerial images of the entire county. The company's computer sof...
OLIVIA, Minn. -- A man was found dead in an Olivia residence approximately four hours after police responded to a domestic incident there Monday morning, Nov. 13.A woman and children fled the residence and an Olivia police officer responding to t...
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. - When attorney Janice Nelson of Montevideo emceed a conference in September looking at the region's workforce challenges, she announced at the start just how familiar she was with one of them.Her administrative assistant had ju...
BIRD ISLAND, Minn. - When solar panel installers told Glen Jacobsen that his utility bill looked different than others they have seen, he began investigating.Now Jacobsen, and many others who produce some of their own electricity with solar panel...
Editor's note: This is one of several stories about what is called a rural Minnesota health care crisis. BIGFORK, Minn. - Small-town hospitals and clinics may not have all the bells and whistles of their big-city counterparts, but they offer some...
WILLMAR, Minn. - A growing market for industrial hemp as food, fiber and nutraceuticals is gaining ground in west central Minnesota and could find a place in Kandiyohi County.There's at least one field of hemp planted this year in Chippewa County...
OLIVIA, Minn. - Two Olivia doctors have been disciplined by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice for mismanaging a labor and delivery that resulted in a pre-term birth.The action was announced this week by the board, which oversees physician l...
OLIVIA, Minn. - The Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected a bid by a Renville County defendant for a reduction of his 415-month prison sentence for second-degree murder.The court rejected the argument by Dwayne Case, 31, that the sentence "exaggera...
OLIVIA, Minn. - A 20-year-old man lit his parents' Olivia home on fire early Dec. 3, authorities say - but not before he had moved his DVDs, books, computer and other personal items out of the way.Wahkan Otahta Blackhawk was charged Feb. 8 in Ren...
