Mohs Contracting is celebrating 15 years in business.
The rebirth of downtown Owatonna continues as Graif Clothing officially opened to the public on Monday.
As of March 2, Coldwell Banker Home Connection and Coldwell Banker South Metro joined Coldwell Banker River Valley, Realtors. The move further…
SMART Transit, which serves four southern Minnesota communities, including Owatonna and Waseca, has been recognized in a video by the Minnesot…
It’s an ongoing process, but the Blooming Prairie-based heavy-duty trucking giant Minimizer is settling into its new home in Owatonna’s indust…
After more than a year of negotiations with union representatives, city staff in Medford elected to stop exploring unionizing and give the new…
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency fined the city of Medford, and directed it to immediately correct problems that led to two 2020 spills …
Owatonna's Revol Greens, the largest greenhouse lettuce grower in North America, announced an innovation earlier this year with the rollout of…
After a previously contentious conversation regarding the historic Piper House – specifically on the involvement of the local historical socie…
Things continue to happen for Owatonna’s downtown district, as a one-stop-gift-shop has staked claim on Bridge Street, relocating from Faribault.
With the weather teasing spring earlier this month, the same question has been on every Steele Countian’s mind: Will there be a fair?
Bushel Boy Farms has named Chuck Tryon president of its operations in Owatonna and Mason City, Iowa.
Medford's new city leaders are facing a crisis, caused, according to city and state records, by years of neglect to the city's wastewater trea…
After receiving requests totaling $5.3 million, Steele County officials have chosen the businesses and nonprofits that will receive $715,000 i…
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After almost an entire year of working from home, people are experiencing a new type of cabin fever: the longing to return to an office.
Even as it prepares to close out the month having spent 10 times what it did in January on natural gas, the Owatonna Public Utilities Commissi…
Of the $216 million in economic relief state legislators authorized to help businesses and organizations impacted by the pandemic, Steele Coun…
Ethanol producers are supportive of legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar that would boost the industry.
With the rapid economic boom Owatonna has experienced in recent years, hundreds of jobs have been created. While this is a positive in many wa…
It’s been roughly seven years since Kelli Sackett has owned a business located in Owatonna’s downtown district, but the homecoming was everyth…
From car warranties to credit cards, it seems every week there is a new telephone scam circulating the area. Recently, the latest scam to stri…
McCarthy Plumbing and Heating is now a Davis Mechanical company owned by Jake Helgeson and Phil Gray who both grew up in the area. McCarthy P…
The economic development fortunes, even amid the covid-19 pandemic, have been remarkable for the Owatonna area in 2020. A record $104 million …
When small businesses across the country shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government tossed out a lifeline in the fo…
It has been almost a year since Wagner’s Lunch and Pool Hall in downtown Owatonna has seen a customer walk through the doors and owner Dan Kub…
Fred Austin, who spent his career at Federated Insurance and retired as its president, was known as a people person.
For a number of years, the Adair Building on the West Hills campus in Owatonna has remained empty, leaving those in the community wondering wh…
Local restaurant and museum owners are thankful they’re now able to open — even at 50% capacity — after months of dropping revenue and associa…
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