Blogs: Hastings

Your Hastings water bill is going up, and the reason is three treatment plants the city says it never should have needed.

Hastings is taking 3M to court over the forever chemicals in five of our drinking water wells — and the city says it can prove the stuff came out of a smokestack.

Highway 61 will be down to one lane each way for two years. Here's how MnDOT plans to stage the whole rebuild.

Hastings might be about to hit the brakes on data centers while the city figures out what they'd actually mean for us.

Another 10% water rate hike is headed to Hastings residents July 1 — and without state funding, the total bill could eventually climb 150%.

Highway 61 through Hastings is getting torn up and rebuilt starting in 2028 — here's the full rundown on what's planned.

Hastings hosted the 20th Hockey Day Minnesota with pro hockey, high school games, and wind chills that made your eyelashes freeze.

Hastings' Parks Commission weighs in on parkland for a massive 375-home development, plus playground replacements, a $1M inclusive park grant, and more.

A highway. Then an airport. Here's how Carpenter Nature Center survived both threats.

A 1929 stock purchase, an apple orchard, and no kids. Here's what they did with it.