A St. Augusta woman is missing as of May 1. Her last know location was in the Willmar area. Anyone with information is asked to call the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office at 320-259-3700. The Stearns ...

A Holdingford teen was seriously injured and medevaced in a two-vehicle crash east of Holdingford May 3 that sent two other men to the hospital as well.

On May 4, 2025, at approximately 1:49 p.m., the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medical at the address 26056 CR 34 in Paynesville Township. When officers arrived on scene, they learned ...

St. John’s University now has an interim athletics director, Dan O’Brien, to replace former director Bob Alpers, who retired in April after nine years of serving in that position. O’Brien has been a ...

Seven crews of young people are training to prepare for outdoor adventure trips that will take them this summer to the Canadian wilderness area – in one case a girls’ crew traveling all the way to ...

Ann L. Scherer, a woman who worked hard for so many years to make the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf an ongoing success, has been chosen to be the grand marshal of the upcoming Fourth of July Parade.

Despite her young age, Christine knows all the right questions, but the answers she gets in her village of Palim do not satisfy her. Not at all. It seems to her most of the residents in the village ...

If ebullient charm can help build roads, Leander Avenue in southwest Sartell just might be heading rather quickly in a good direction, toward a fix-up or a total re-do. At the April 14 Sartell City ...

After serving with distinction for more than 34 years on the Stearns County Board of Commissioners, Leigh Lenzmeier of District 4 submitted a letter of resignation April 23. A special election, likely ...

A man who was often viewed as the very embodiment of Benedictine Christian values died in Collegeville on April 11 at the age of 99. Fr. (Father) Don Talafous, OSB (Order of St. Benedict), was a monk, ...

Long-time Sartell Sabres Head Dance Coach Kelly McCarney was recently named as “Class 3A Coach of the Year” by the Minnesota Association of Dance Teams. McCarney’s honor arrived in the wake of the ...

As oak trees in Minnesota face endangerment from ongoing spells of drought, diseases and invasive insects, St. John’s Abbey Arboretum in Collegeville is doing something about it. On April 23, the land ...