Area news

Prairie Island nuclear plant has terminated its "notification of unusual event." The event was declared today at 6:24 a.m. and ended at 11:36 a.m. following "thorough assessment of plant conditions" and Unit 2's coolant system, Xcel Energy officials said. The alert was triggered...

Mike Haege, the Hastings tree trimmer who was kicked out of the tornado zone in north Minneapolis recently, released cell phone video this week that he says backs up his story. Haege has said that a city inspector and police kicked him out of the disaster zone because he wasn't licensed...

The city of Newport is hoping money talks -- or, rather, that a little green encourages someone to talk about a recent act of vandalism that caused a water main to rupture last week. Newport is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of a...

Most of Newport is expected to experience low water pressure Monday following the second break in the city's water main system in five days, with the most recent incident impacting water lines that feed Newport's water reservoir. The burst pipe, reported by the city mid-morning,...

As many as 30 Newport homes were without running water early Thursday following a water main break that the city's public works director says was the indirect result of vandalism. The break, centered east of Highway 61 around the intersection of 8th Avenue and 18th Street, occurred...

Cottage Grove City Administrator Ryan Schroeder says he is happy to return to his job of more than 13 years at Cottage Grove City Hall after he was passed over for the city of Eden Prairie's city manager post last week. "It was a good experience going through the process, I learned...