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City’s Facade Improvement Program helps businesses look their best

Sep 3, 2025

The City of Lake City, through its Port Authority, has assisted two businesses with exterior upgrades this year, and Port Authority Director Doug Grout is trying to create awareness of the program that enabled it and to encourage more businesses to use it. Whitewater Canvas got a loan from the...

Centenarian injured in crash near Staehli park - State Patrol

Sep 3, 2025

A 102-year-old Iowa man was injured Tuesday, Sept. 2, after the pickup he was riding in collided with a semi, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. His injuries were described as non-life-threatening. The crash occurred shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Highway 61 in Florence Township near Staehli...

Aurora Condo info session is today

Aug 27, 2025

A public information session for the long-planned condominium development at the corner of Lakeshore Drive and Marion Street in Lake City is scheduled for today, Aug. 28, at Wild Wings Plaza. Aurora Lakeside Condominiums is planned to be a four-story complex overlooking McCahill Park and the Lake...

Electric utility working high and low on city power infrastructure

Aug 27, 2025

Lake City Public Utilities has been working in the air and underground in the past week due to an evening outage and an ongoing power pole replacement effort. North Side Outage The outage occured Thursday, Aug. 21 at about 6:30 p.m., affecting the north end of Lake City from Grant Street...

Donation will restore forest to 155 acres along Zumbro River

Aug 13, 2025

Wabasha County Commissioners on Aug. 5 approved a request by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to accept a donation of about 155 acres of land along the Zumbro River from the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and return it to forest land. The site in Glasgow Township, northwest of Kellogg,...

City council hires public works director and city clerk

Aug 13, 2025

The Lake City City Council hired two department head-level employees at its Aug. 11 meeting. Former Public Works Director Scott Jensen left the position earlier this year. After which the city named assistant Public Works Director Mitchell Rigelman to the position on an interim basis. The city...

Track maintenance relies on a mix of technology, vigilance

Aug 6, 2025

For a number of months, drivers in our community have braced themselves when crossing the tracks of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway particularly at Lyon Avenue. Rough pavement and uneven roadbeds turned everyday commutes into jarring experiences, rattling tires, shocks, cup holders—and...

Overnight storm causes damage, outages

Jul 30, 2025

Hundreds of people were left without electricity following an overnight storm Monday, July 28. High winds brought down branches and trees and caused other damage. Xcel Energy, which serves customers in the area, reported several local outages Tuesday morning on its online outage map at www....

Rail work to continue into Goodhue County

Jul 23, 2025

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) will perform nighttime work on the rail corridor parallel to U.S. 61 in Goodhue County in the coming weeks, according to a public service announcement issued by the company. Residents should expect track maintenance machines to generate noise and light during...

County accepts Radiological Ingestion Pathway grant