Brad Thoreson News Today

CHI Franciscan reportedly did donate almost $31,000 to the foundation ex-Bainbridge mayor Kol Medina worked for, court records say.

Near Climax, Minnesota, a small crack in the ground has grown, causing a quarter-mile long stretch of bean field to fall 25 feet. Few have ever seen anything like it.

Growers on Hawaii’s Big Island use chemical analysis to accuse retailers and coffee makers of passing off commodity beans as Kona. Kona coffee dates to the 1820s, when missionaries started planting the crop. Plantations began springing up 20 years later but faded out toward the end of the century as labor costs rose. Immigrants from Portugal and then Japan bought up the land, dividing it into small plots that they ran for generations as family farms. Advertisement Contemporary farmers are a ...