MANKATO - Drivers should expect lane and shoulder closures on Interstate 90 at Elk Creek east of Luverne beginning Nov. 2 as crews install riprap (rock) to stabilize slopes, according to the Minnesota ... Read More

Larry Ide, 79 from Lester Prairie, was identified on Friday as the man killed in the incident. The crash report on the Minnesota State Patrol website says he, "was standing outside near the driver's ... Read More

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is assisting on the scene of what appears to be multiple crashes just north of Highway 14. Read More

A semi-truck driver was hit and killed while he was standing near his truck on the shoulder of Highway 169 in Mankato Thursday afternoon. Read More

MnDOT says the Highway 22 detour between Mankato and Saint Peter will lift by 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, as the two-year reconstruction project wraps up. Read More

The injured person was in an the passenger seat of the vehicle. The State Patrol says 40-year-old Sarah Salinas of Mankato suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the ... Read More

One person was injured in a two-vehicle crash Saturday, September 12, at the intersection of southbound Highway 22 and Highway 83 in Mankato. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a 2018 Nissan ... Read More

New pavement, safety upgrades and other improvements coming to Highway 169 in Mankato-North Mankato won't shut down the busy highway for the entire construction season next year. Read More

Highway 93 between Henderson and U.S. Highway 169 is scheduled to reopen to traffic at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, ending a construction project that has closed the ... Read More

An Iowa man was hospitalized after a collision with a Wisconsin semi driver at the intersection of Highways 60 and 14 east of Eagle Lake Tuesday afternoon. Read More

MANKATO - A Mankato woman was hospitalized following a Friday night crash on Highway 22 at its interchange with Highway 14. Dilan Ranee Callahan, 26, suffered non-life-threatening injuries when her ... Read More

On Sunday, Tyson Michael Goodsell, 17, posted an Instagram photo with a large sum of cash and was found with a gunshot wound in his crashed vehicle just hours later ... Read More

After her Kia Spectra EX careened off Highway 169 Wednesday morning, Ann Garlinghouse found herself upside down in her car along with her mother and young daughter. Read More

Through traffic will be detoured to Highways 14 and 169, with access for residents and businesses remaining open. Read More

A $1.2 million visual makeover of Highway 169 through Mankato-North Mankato is coming next year after the city of Mankato joined North Mankato and the state in agreeing ... Read More

A 30-year-old New Ulm woman and her two passengers were injured when a pickup and an SUV crashed Friday morning on an icy, snowy section of Highway 14 ... Read More

The school bus-SUV crash occurred at the intersection of Hwy. 109 and 480th Ave. in the small town of Easton, which is about 30 miles south of Mankato. The southbound school bus was traveling on 480th ... Read More

She's got many reasons to be upset, but Marek Armstrong of New Ulm refuses to let her injuries from a hit-and-run crash in downtown Mankato Oct. 4 get her down. '?I'm very, very overwhelmed with all ... Read More

OWATONNA - A wrong-way driver who had been drinking alcohol caused a head-on crash on Highway 14 early Sunday morning about six miles east of Owatonna, the State Patrol said. Lori Kay Linsmeier, 48, ... Read More

A wrong-way driver who had been drinking alcohol caused a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 14 early Sunday morning. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 48-year-old Lori Kay Linsmeier, of Mankato, ... Read More

A 17-year-old driver from Gaylord was hospitalized Saturday night after her vehicle rolled following a collision on Highway 14 in North Mankato. Read More

A 52-year-old North Mankato man died on a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Highway 14 and CR 4 (Range Road) at 3:47 p.m. Saturday. Jeffrey John Bentdahl of North Mankato was driving a 1998 ... Read More

A 52-year-old North Mankato man is dead following an intersection crash between a car and motorcycle around 3:45 p.m. Saturday on Highway 14 in Brown County. Read More

The fatal crash occurred on Hwy. 169 near the intersection of 150th Ave. near Vernon Center, which is about 20 miles southwest of Mankato. A northbound car and southbound pick-up truck collided on the ... Read More

GARDEN CITY - A project to improve traffic safety on Highway 169 near Garden City includes lowering the speed limit for some road sections. The Minnesota Department of Transportation is adding ... Read More

A North Mankato man was injured Friday morning after the car he was driving and a semi collided just southwest of Mankato at the intersection of Highways 169 ... Read More

Mankato, Minnesota - Many people from Sheldon and greater northwest Iowa travel from this area toward the Twin Cities, often taking Highway 60 to Mankato and then Highway 169 to the Minneapolis ... Read More

PETER - A 19-year-old St. Peter resident was injured when the car he was driving crashed early Friday morning on Highway 169 a few miles ... Clinic Health System in Mankato. Read More

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - A Waseca man is sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in an attempted drive by shooting. Joshua Raymond Armendariz, 44, was sentenced Monday on two counts of 1st ... Read More

The City of Mankato is on its way to dramatically improving its transportation infrastructure, thanks to a significant financial boost from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). Read More

When you own livestock in Minnesota, part of the responsibility ... near Mankato last summer when three cows wandered onto Highway 14, causing a series of accidents. The incident resulted in ... Read More

Mankato resident Deborah Juberian is remembering her grandson Joshya Juberian as someone who always had a smile on his face after the 15-year-old died following a skiing accident ... Read More

Thumbs up to all those aiming to upgrade the aesthetics of the entrance into North Mankato and Mankato along Highway 169. Read More

ASHLAND TOWNSHIP, Minn. - A Dodge County crash on Sunday morning sent a man to the hospital. The Minnesota State Patrol says Thomas James Eustice, 47 of Mankato, was driving a 2023 Toyota Tacoma east ... Read More

Wilke is one of eight community members on the Visual Quality Advisory Committee formed by the Minnesota Department ... or dilapidated properties west of Highway 169. It's not just the local ... Read More

The complete reconstruction of Highway 169 in Mankato-North Mankato at a cost of $70 million offers opportunities to enhance the primary entrance to the two cities, which local officials politely ... Read More

Joshua Raymond Armendariz, 43, of Mankato, will face convictions on two felony counts of attempted murder, felony drive-by shooting toward an occupied vehicle, two felonies for assault with a ... Read More

New Ulm, MN ( KROC-AM News )- A crash on Hwy. 14 claimed the life of a southern Minnesota man. It happened on Friday morning. He was the only person involved in the fatality. The State Patrol ... Read More

The Minnesota Department of Transportation ... The description was used for Highway 169 from Mankato to Vernon Center, Highway 60 from Madelia to Waterville, Highway 14 from Sleepy Eye to ... Read More

The State Patrol says Daniel Robert Edwards, 32 of Mankato, was driving a 2017 Ram 1500 pickup truck west on US Highway 14 when he went off the road near mile marker 114 and crashed just before 8 am ... Read More

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC ... That's the intersection right off Highway 169 near the McDonalds and Kwik Trip. There is a detour inplace. The intersection is expected to reopen by the end of ... Read More

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) -It's been over a year since the $83-million Highway 14 project opened straight line access from New Ulm to Rochester, connecting everywhere in between. The hope for the ... Read More

MANKATO - One person was taken to the hospital after an accident just after 5 p.m. Friday in Le Hillier. Read More

In a statewide push to curb the speed-induced peril on Minnesota roads, Mankato Police Officers are banding together with other law enforcement agencies for an extra speed enforcement campaign. This ... Read More

Highway 99 Minnesota River Bridge in St. Peter closes St. Peter Fourth of July fireworks back on thanks to community fundraising Hwy. 22 bridge closed due to flooding; Rapidan Dam in imminent ... Read More

Flooding is forcing the closure of Highway 169 starting at 7 p.m. Monday from north of Mankato to Highway 99 south of St. Peter, according to the Minnesota ... Read More

This approaches the flood of record. * WHERE...Minnesota River at Mankato. * WHEN...Until further notice. * IMPACTS...At 26.6 feet, Flood waters begin to impact Highway 169 in North Mankato. * ... Read More

Storms that first hit in southwestern Minnesota overnight and through the early morning on Friday, forcing the closure of portions of Interstate 90 between Worthington and Luverne, arrived in Mankato ... Read More

Twice in less than a week Rosie Peterson and her family discovered racist messages written on vehicles outside their Mankato home. Read More

Tributes have been paid to two "inseparable" teenagers killed in a head-on crash near Mankato last weekend. Jordis Lee Lewis, 18, of Lake Crystal, and his passenger, Jackson Riley Tester, 17, of ... Read More

Authorities released the name of an Owatonna man involved in a semi-SUV crash Wednesday evening at an intersection east of Eagle Lake. Read More

A teen motorcyclist was killed in a crash east of Mankato on Tuesday. Tyler James Schmitz, 18, of Farmington, was killed in the crash that happened at the intersection of Hwy. 14 and 610th Avenue in ... Read More

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- The $31 million expansion of Highway 14 from Nicollet to North Mankato has officially begun, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Monday. The project is ... Read More

LE SUEUR - Motorists are advised that two Highway 169 ramps in the Le Sueur area will close Tuesday. ... Mankato, MN 56001 Phone: (507) 625-4451 Email: editor@mankatofreepress.com. Read More

Part of the Highway 14 detour in North Mankato will be removed late Wednesday. A short segment on the west end of the highway will be open to traffic, according to the Minnesota Department of ... Read More