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1 week ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.-The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Rochester Police Department Department kicked off their annual joint Crisis Intervention Team Training on Monday, April 14. The training is set to go Monday through Thursday and run over 20 officers through education on mental health, PTSD and how to de-escalate situations involving community members in the middle of a mental health related incident.
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1 week ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz stopped by the site of a new Mayo Clinic care facility on Monday, April 14, alongside several state lawmakers to check in on the progress of Mayo Clinic's Bold Forward Unbound Expansion project. The building is on the site of Mayo's old Ozmun complex.
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1 week ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- Over 20 Stewartville High School students got a chance to get hands on experience in the hospitality industry on Thursday, April 10, as part of job shadow tour organized by the Southeast Service Cooperative and Minnesota Hospitality. The tour organized through the FutureForward Groundhog Job Shadow program.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- Visitors at Cascade Lake Park got a chance to work on a new mural for its Lakeside Building on Wednesday, April 9, with Rochester's Minnesota Park Artist in Residence (MNPAiR), Cassandra Buck. It was one of several workshops Buck says she's running throughout the month of April for park goers of all ages to draw, paint and collage pictures of what the park means to them. She says in May she'll start taking those pictures and start refining them into one unified design.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- An ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. could impact the cell phone industry and other mobile devices. As of Wednesday, April 9, the President Donald Trump announced it would be putting a pause on a wave of new tariffs with the exception of 125 percent tariff on goods imported from China. 10 percent reciprocal tariffs to several countries that started this April will also remain in effect.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- Bigelow Homes Westbury project was approved for $4.38 million in Home Ownership Creation funding from the City of Rochester on Monday, April 7, the company says that by partnering with community leaders it hopes to show its possible to build cheaper homes and still make a profit. Mike Paradise, president of Bigelow Homes, says the Westbury project is set to create 219 homes all below $400,000 to help address a gap in the market.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.-The Rochester City Council is looking to amend a city ordinance to streamline recruitment for new Community Service Officers. The amendment would remove the city's Police Civil Service Commission from the hiring process. According to Capt. Paul Gronholz, whose served on the hiring committee for 3 years, the commission's job with most new hires in the department is to sign off on candidates after background checks and interviews.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
CHARLES CITY, Iowa.- At 8:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, Steve and Jenny Stirling say one of their employees alerted them to a industrial fire that had broken out at their manufacturing site in Charles City. By 11 p.m. there was a an evacuation order for their immediate neighbors along Old Highway Road. The Nashua couple says they haven't slept much since then. The couple and their 20 employees at the site are currently trying to restore power to their main office.
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2 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
ROCHESTER, Minn.- The 2025 Workforce Development Forum gathered dozens of southeast Minnesota business leaders at the International Event Center on Thursday, April 3, to discuss ways to improve recruitment and retention in a tight labor market. One of the ways companies like Harmony Enterprises are trying to do that is by looking locally by holding skill trainings and summer internships for local high schools in Harmony, Minnesota and surrounding cities and towns.
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3 weeks ago | 
kimt.com | Evan Berg
KASSON, Minn.-Dodge County Environmental Services broke ground on a new waste transfer facility on Wednesday, April 2, that could more than triple its capacity for waste disposal. Right now the county says it uses a 70 by 80 feet facility in Kasson to store trash and recyclables before shipping them to secondary facilities for processing. Trash and other waste goes to Rochester for burning, recyclables go to a Republic Services Recycling Center just outside of the Twin Cities.
