Joe Spear

MANKATO — Kiwanis Holiday Lights organizers worked for months trying to come up with a way to hold the event with COVID-19 restrictions, but in the end the logistics were

Criticism comes with the territory in the news business, and The Free Press has a long history of publishing letters to the editor that criticize our coverage and our opinions.

Four years after the Vikings moved training camp out of Mankato, the city remains without a signature summer event of the same magnitude.

The events of the last few months have shown that we’re far from out of the woods when it comes to world peace or even economic interdependence with countries around

A proposed $92 million hotel project by local developers calls for adding 281 rooms with two hotels, creating 344 jobs and establishing a centerpiece development in the middle of downtown

The Trump campaign has intentionally taken the road riddled with racist screeds and innuendo that resurrects the historical trauma passed along from slavery to Jim Crow.

A construction company, an engineering firm and a company that supplies equipment to aircraft carriers were among the honorees at the Greater Mankato Business Awards & Hall of Fame event

MANKATO — While Ardent Mills will close its Mankato plant by early next year, the company said it is working closely with community leaders and the city of Mankato for

MANKATO — Gov. Tim Walz took 26 flights and did 38 rallies in the last 10 days of the Harris-Walz campaign, and he’s glad to be back to being governor

MANKATO — Greater Mankato Growth and its subsidiaries recognized its Volunteers of the Year for Greater Mankato Growth, CityCenter Partnership, Visit Mankato, Greenseam and Young Professionals at its annual meeting