The local area is under a heat advisory from noon through 8 p.m. Wednesday as heat index values up to 101 are expected.  Hot ...

A hit-and-run was reported at 10:12 a.m. Tuesday at 2011 E. Main St.  1 arrested on warrant Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter Police arrested James Edward Mills, 63, on a ...

The Vikings begin training camp practices Wednesday with 91 players and a handful of position battles set to play out over ...

I had been outside attempting to fence in the mosquitoes. I made a noble effort, but it didn’t work. What it did do was work ...

First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea decided last month to bring in the Rev. Ryan Stevenson-Cosgrove to join the church’s ...

The Trumps did not study politics. He is an outsider, and he ran as a joke. He stands with Russia, North Korea and other ...

Is it a close friend who sent a 50th birthday card to Epstein in 2003 with a drawing of a woman’s nude body, signed his ...

President John F Kennedy during his inaugural address statedm “And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do ...

As an elected board supervisor for the Freeborn County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), appointed board manager ...

Albert Lea VFW went 3-0 last weekend in the District 1 Divisional playoff to advance to the divisional championship playoff ...

Schmidt, born 7/2/1930, in Minneapolis, entered eternal life on 7/19/2025. Survived by her daughters, Judith (Dr. Kenneth) ...

An Albert Lea man was sentenced Tuesday to five years and five months in prison after receiving a package with cocaine in February 2024.  Freeborn County District Court Judge Ross Leuning found Juan ...