MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - A post in a Facebook group is going viral for a push to get the popular grocery store Trader Joe’s to build a store in Mankato. The group, Mankato Area Moms, has 7600 members and a member recently posted a link to a form on Trader Joe’s website to request a store in your city. The post is generating dozens of comments and reactions on the social media platform.

Vendors at the Mankato Farmers market are testing the waters on the idea of moving to a new, permanent location.

Approximately 155 costumed characters hit the track around St. Peter High School on Saturday morning to enjoy the community’s annual Halloween Fun Run. Open to men, women, children and canines, community members got in the Halloween spirit while trekking the 5K course around the high school grounds. Young ones could join in the fun as well through the Lil’ Monster Dash. The event is hosted each year by the St....

As the semester begins to roll into its last full month, the Good Thunder Reading Series wrapped things up with its last event for the fall, featuring Lao-American playwright Saymoukda Vongsay who visited Minnesota State Thursday. Vongsay said her first inspiration to start writing was back in elementary school, after...