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 ...

— 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. — 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 ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. – A police officer was shot Monday afternoon during a warrant execution in southwestern Minnesota. Granite Falls police say the officer was part of a multi-agency task force that ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — A suspect is reported to be in stable condition after being shot near Granite Falls by an officer with the CEE-VI Drug Task Force on Wednesday afternoon. Chippewa County Sheriff ...

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.

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, on July 25, 2000, the town of Granite Falls in western Minnesota was hit hard by a devastating tornado. Hundreds of homes were damaged, one man died and more than a dozen people ...

Joseph Edward Tipton, 43, was sentenced Sept. 25 in Yellow Medicine County District Court by Judge Keith Helgeson, who gave Tipton credit for 37 days already served. Tipton had also been charged with ...