Owatonna, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Minnesota Department of Transportation is reporting the northbound lanes of I-35 between Iowa border and Owatonna are now open but the southbound lanes are still closed due to the deep snow drifts from the weekend blizzard...
Some preliminary numbers gathered by the State Department of Homeland Security shows over 600 stranded motorists were rescued across southern Minnesota during the weekend blizzard.
Travel conditions are slowly improving across southeastern Minnesota, but some major highways remain closed and no travel is still advised in most areas.
The latest in a series of winter storms to pound the region has delivered over a foot of heavy snow to the our area and has made travel impossible across much of southeastern Minnesota.