MOUND, Minn.—The home on the corner lot has a two car garage—and a 500-vehicle basement. Lloyd Laumann will be the single largest contributor to a Tonka toy museum set to open next month in Mound.

Growing up in the treeless Arctic of Alaska in the 60's, where supplies came once a year by steamship, Dwayne Edward Beals learned to value even the smallest scrap of wood. The same went for rusted ...

It’s perhaps too easy to get all misty-eyed and wistful about the past, especially when it concerns our old toys, but there really is something different about Tonka. Here were tough trucks, cranes, ...

Every holiday season, there is one toy that appears on the wish lists of many kids and adults alike: Hess Toy Trucks. This year marks the 55th year of Hess Toy Trucks, and has been a holiday tradition ...

Kids are fascinated by anything and everything on wheels, but they’re even more awestruck when a vehicle serves a greater purpose beyond speeding down the highway. Whether it’s the whirring of fire ...