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Two more elderly residents of Olmsted County have died after contracting COVID-19.

Another popular eating and drinking establishment in Rochester is temporarily closing as a result of the recent increase in COVID-19 infections in the Rochester area.

The Rochester Police Department has launched a new "digital dashboard" to provide the public with a tool for tracking a variety of policing statistics.

Recreating a golf course is no small feat, but that is exactly what is happening at what Montgomery National Golf Course's website calls the "World’s 1st Music-Themed Championship 18 Hole Golf Course."

As has been the case in many other parts of the state and the nation, most of the COVID-19 cases recently detected in Olmsted County involve younger people.

Car thieves have struck again in Byron.

Rochester police were called to a home Wednesday morning and found a dead dog in the backyard swimming pool.

For the second time this week, Rochester police responded early today to a report of a shooting at a residence in the 1600 block of 8 1/2 Street Southeast.

Olmsted County Public Health officials say they have traced at least a portion of the recent increased COVID-19 activity in the Rochester area to people who spent time in downtown Rochester bars.

Governor Walz said recently that he could make a decision on a state-wide mask mandate in the "very near future."