Goodhue County

After three attempts, Goodhue County Board tentatively approved the preliminary 2017 budget and levy as presented Tuesday, Sept. 20 — thanks to a swing vote by Commissioner Jason Majerus. Majerus agreed to support the 7.61 percent preliminary levy increase proposed by county staff...

To the Editor: Jason Lewis, right-leaning Republican who at one time proposed privatizing Social Security for young working people, is running for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District, which includes all of Goodhue County. More than 1 out of 5 of us living in Goodhue County...

A Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office employee is accused of illegally recording a conversation between co-workers with an iPhone in an attempt to catch office gossip. Diane Lynn Miller is charged with intentionally intercepting oral communication, a felony, for a recording made around...

In January 2011, United Way started Packing for the Weekend at Sunnyside School in Red Wing. Today, it reaches across several school districts. The program helps provide children with food for the weekend by filling backpacks to the top for each student and their family. Packing...

Goodhue County commissioners proposed cutting a wage increase and new staff from the nearly $60.5 million preliminary 2017 budget presented at a workshop Tuesday. On the chopping block are requests for an additional full-time court bailiff and a pair of part-time Health and Human...

By Vicki Iocco Goodhue County Health & Human Services With school starting and flu season soon to follow, it’s a good time to think about how lucky we are to live in a time and place where there are vaccines. Vaccines are among the most important accomplishments in medicine...