Why would kids risk getting needled by their friends about an unusual (for their age) activity?

Winona Middle School students know they don’t have to be grown up to love to knit or to appreciate giving to a good cause.

A Winona man convicted of selling cocaine just a month after being released from prison in March was sent back to prison Wednesday.

A man convicted of receiving stolen property failed to appear for a sentencing hearing Wednesday and drew the ire of a Winona judge.

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SPRING GROVE, Minn. — The Spring Grove School District wanted to increase the number of hot lunches served by requiring its high school juniors and seniors to eat at school midweek,

A woman who seriously injured two Winona State University athletics coaches in a drunken driving crash in 2005 will not spend the holidays in jail.

Winona’s anchor leg of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount was more than half complete with only a few glitches on Wednesday afternoon, with eight precincts left to recount this morning.

Over 100 young men and women from the Winona area will dance in the 2008 production of The Nutcracker. This clip features dancers performing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Rheannon Gustafson could be a harbinger of things to come.

Over 100 young men and women from the Winona area will dance in the 2008 production of The Nutcracker. This clip features dancers performing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Lisa Rudrud is not a runner. Yet. “I’ve always wanted to be,” she said.

Women are called ballerinas. Men are called “furniture.”

The Gale-Ettrick-Trem-pealeau school district has finalized the sale of property originally bought as a site for a new school.

Three Wisconsin teens were injured Sunday when their sport utility vehicle rolled on icy roads in Maxville, Wis., the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department reported.

The newest addition to the Winona Police Department was sworn in Monday at City Hall.

LA CROSSE, Wis. ? The silver carp ? the notorious leaping fish that has menaced boaters ? has been found in the Mississippi River near La Crosse, the first known sighting of the species in Wisconsin or Minnesota waters.

ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Authorities are warning Minnesotans to be careful around bats after three of them tested positive for rabies in Olmsted County this year.

The Arcadia, Wis., school district has begun a formal search to replace its superintendent who died in May.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation should start to offer answers Thursday for Winona residents wondering when and where a new Interstate Bridge will be built.