Mayor Dave Smiglewski of Granite Falls died Friday at age 70. He has served in the city government since 1979, and as mayor since 1996. Granite Falls Mayor Dave Smiglewski served in the city ...

— A small western Minnesota community has lost its mayor and tireless advocate who led it through three major, natural disasters. Granite Falls Mayor Dave Smiglewski, 70, died Friday evening in ...

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating an "officer use of force incident" in Granite Falls Monday. The Granite Falls Police Department said a multi-agency drug and gang task ...

A pedestrian reportedly called 911 after spotting a body in the Minnesota River downstream of the U.S. Highway 212 Bridge on Tuesday, March 19 A body was discovered in the Minnesota River a short ...

According to a news release issued Monday by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Dylan McKaide Anderson-Butler, 23, of Granite Falls, was shot once. He was transported to Hennepin County ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — One firefighter suffered a minor injury while fighting the fire that engulfed a portion of what was the Granite Grinder Cafe in Granite Falls early Sunday morning. The ...

— A Granite Falls man was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to an amended charge of fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle. Joseph Edward Tipton, 43, was sentenced Sept. 25 ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is investigating a shooting and subsequent standoff that sent a police officer to the hospital in Granite Falls Monday night.

Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports ...

GRANITE FALLS — The driver of a semitractor suffered non-life-threatening injuries Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 212 and Minnesota Highway 23 east of ...

The farm kid from the small town of Granite Falls had no intention of helping make history, but he did so as part of the team on which he played. The national champion 1960 Gopher football team was ...

Dr. Kathleen Jordan pulled a diversion from her physician’s bag of tricks to test thousands of southwestern Minnesota school kids for tuberculosis from 1930 into the ‘60s. She’d ask the kids to ...