Tornado

Signs on the edge of town advertise tax-free residential lots available in Wadena. Now that spring in the air it's the start of construction season. The tax-free lots are located in the southwest section of town where an EF-4 tornado tore through Wadena, ripping up homes. This...

Tornado sirens sounded on the streets of Wadena Monday night as the National Weather Service issued several tornado warnings for Wadena County. According to the NWS website, at 8:15 p.m. a local spotter took video of a brief funnel cloud touchdown 100 yards northwest of the intersection...

The Science Museum of Minnesota invites residents of Otter Tail and Wadena counties, areas hard-hit by the biggest tornado outbreak in Minnesota's history in June 2010, to see the new "Tornado Alley" Omnitheater film for free during Wadena Days on Nov. 16-18, according to a press...

The Wadena Regional Wellness Center project was awarded $4.2 million from the DEED Capital Projects Grant Program, making Gov. Mark Dayton's final choices today (Thursday). "We are extremely ecstatic," Mayor Wayne Wolden said. The award amount was short of the $4.625 million asked...

To say the least, this has been a busy summer at WDC, and I am sure the frantic moves and shifting of school items will continue until all staff and students are settled into their new spaces in the next few months. Will the new high and middle school open on Sept. 4? Oh, yes. Will...

Aug. 17 turned out to be a beautiful Friday; one I felt couldn't be spent entirely indoors. So I decided to take my work outside for a bit. The new Wadena-Deer Creek School has really been taking shape, and I figured the blue skies would make for good pictures of the building. I...

The local Community Action agency now has an office in downtown Wadena. Mahube-Otwa Community Action Partnership quietly opened its 311 S. Jefferson St. location Tuesday. Staff members were unpacking office equipment in the morning. "We are very excited," Dana Patsie of Childcare...