All six eligible Mayo Clinic Health System hospitals earned A grades from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization that provides safety ratings. The ratings are intended to ...

Austin Public Schools’ Austin Online Academy received a Bronze Star of Innovation Award from the Minnesota Association of Secondary Principals (MASSP). The Star of Innovation Award is “designed to ...

Thousands of Minnesota students are gearing up to for Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 8, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation encourages more schools to get involved. More than 150 ...

Grace Lutheran Church Veterans Appreciation Sunday Service will be held at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May19. This year’s service marks the 21st year that Grace Lutheran has held the service.  This year’s ...

Sela Rose Fadness, of Austin, will graduate from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry on May 10 with a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree. Fadness plans to move to Washington D.C. to ...

Duplicate Bridge players came out in force on Tuesday, coming from Albert Lea, Austin,  Rose Creek and Austin. Winners were: First place, Larry Crowe and Bill Momsen Second place, Edna Knobbe and Gail ...

Motorists traveling on Minnesota roads this spring should watch for large farm equipment moving to and from the fields during planting season, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

By  Phil Picardi and Gracie Stockton The Minnesota Governor’s fishing opener is next Saturday and anglers are eagerly waiting to drop a line, hoping to reel in trout, bass, walleye and muskie. But the ...

It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir ...

Experience can go a long way when the postseason arrives and the Packer baseball team is betting on their strong senior class to raise the bar as the team closes in on the final stretch. Austin has ...

Anti-war demonstrations ceased this week at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters, fending off possible disruptions of final exams and ...

By Dana Ferguson The Minnesota House voted Thursday to approve a bill that would set new restrictions on firearms and the way they’re stored. The DFL-led chamber on a vote of 68-64 approved the ...