The findings suggest that a job vacancy rate of around four percent is manageable, but four of Minnesota’s six geographic ...

The eight Minnesota counties in the region, including Winona and Houston, are sensitive to groundwater contamination because of karst, a porous geography of springs, sinkholes and shallow bedrock.

Iron Rangers’ fiercely pro-union politics had for decades made the region the great rural redoubt of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota’s variant on the Democratic Party. But in a ...