REP. MELISSA HORTMAN and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a mile from where I grew up, ...

Metro Transit’s slow but popular Route 21 bus route is coming to an end after 70 years, though not without a final toast ...

The bike-share program linking Waite Park and St. Joseph is struggling with theft and rising costs, risking its future after ...

It’s been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone, my home town,” Garrison Keillor would say every week on National Public Radio’s program, “A Prairie Home Companion.” That kind of week ...

This airline pilot has always nursed the secret conceit of being especially capable aviator—at least until recently.

Lake Wobegon Outfitters, which offers electric bikes along the Lake Wobegon Trail, has reopened this season with a new focus that is specifically on biking. Owner Wayne Birkholz started the ...

Lake Wobegon Outfitters, focusing solely on e-bike rentals, has reopened for the summer along the Lake Wobegon Trail. Owner Wayne Birkholz aims to make the trail more accessible to a wider range ...

Cousin Keith came from Colorado, and the “Schubert girls”— Mary, Kris, and Jeannie — with their brother, Frank, came all the way from Arizona, Texas, and Missouri to facilitate the annual Emil ...

Prior to the official opening of the Lake Wobegon Trail extension Thursday, folks had to transport their bikes by vehicle from Waite Park to St. Joseph — or brave busy highways — to access the ...

She then riffed on the line Garrison Keillor once used every week to close a segment called News From Lake Wobegon—the fictional Minnesota town Keillor described in humorous and novelistic ...

LAKE WOBEGON, Minn. — It’s a place where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average. It’s an expanse of rolling farm fields speckled with churches ...

Keillor gained fame for “A Prairie Home Companion” that ran more than 40 years and featured his stories about Lake Wobegon, a fictitious town based in part on his hometown of Anoka ...