The addition of 10 students to the Hills-Beaver Creek School District since September improved the district’s general fund by $100,000 in state aid. However, the increase was quickly negated by ...

The Blue Mound Figure Skaters competed at the Brookings Prairie Polar Blast this past weekend and brought home the ...

Minnesota’s 1,776 townships will host their annual meetings on Tuesday, March 11. These annual meetings occur every year on the second Tuesday in March, known as Township Day, and set townships apart ...

Photo courtesy of Southwest Minnesota State University. Brianna Kinsinger (center) poses with the full-ride scholarship ...

Mavis Fodness photo. Alumni Talks John Berdahl Hills-Beaver Creek Class of 1995 graduate John Berdahl shares a laugh as he ...

The Luverne American Indian Parent Advisory Committee (AIPAC) delivered a “vote of nonconcurrence” to Luverne School Board members at their Feb. 27 meeting. Nonconcurrence, by definition, means ...

Mavis Fodness photo. Princess Gala 2025 Stringing bead bracelets in the Luverne Elementary Commons Feb. 25 are (from left) FCCLA member Charlotte Bierman and princesses Penelope Salinas, Lucy Almond, ...

Luverne City Council members took action at their Feb. 25 meeting related to the 2026 Highway 75 road construction in Luverne.

Federal budget cuts through the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), are hitting home, especially in Rock County agriculture offices. “It’s been chaos,” said Doug Bos, assistant director of ...

William “Bill” Ray Johnson passed away on Feb. 11, 2025, near his home in Chula Vista, California, where he resided for 55 years.

Vickie Van Dyke, age 62, of Hardwick, Minnesota, passed away peacefully in her home with family by her side on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025.

A single clock (picture at right) can be seen clearly through the now windowless former Hills-Beaver Creek High School — its hands permanently stopped at 2 o’clock.