Each year, we ask schools in the east metro and western Wisconsin for names of their top graduates, however they define them. Check out the list of our 2025 Top Graduates.

Each year, we ask schools in the east metro and western Wisconsin for names of their top graduates, however they define them. Check out the list of our 2025 Top Graduates.

Is your head spinning as much as mine when it comes to new technology lately? Its hard to keep up with it all, but you want to do the best you can because there are so many new developments. In my opinion, the greatest development in backyard amateur astronomy is the introduction of smart telescopes. […]

Each year, we ask schools in the east metro and western Wisconsin for names of their top graduates, however they define them. Check out the list of our 2025 Top Graduates.

We recognize some of the exceptional grads from the east metro.

Each year, we ask schools in the east metro and western Wisconsin for names of their top graduates, however they define them. Check out the list of our 2025 Top Graduates.

The graphic memoir follows the author and his siblings as they spend summers harvesting rows of the herb on rural Wisconsin farms for a dollar a day.

The full-scale Israeli attack on Irans nuclear infrastructure needs to be added to the list of pivotal, game-changing wars that have reshaped the Middle East since World War II and are known by just their dates 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 2023 and now 2025.

The authors of "Kitchens of Hope" will launch their book at Norway House in Minneapolis on Saturday, June 21.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the United States, was established by Congress.

Novels and poetry by Minnesota authors, just right for summer reading, are today's TBR suggestions (with one from Wisconsin).

If Saturday was indeed a goodbye from the Weeknd, he's leaving us at the top of his game.

Minnesota Uniteds 4-2 loss to San Diego FC on Saturday night included one of the best and worst goals. San Diego defender Chris McVeys back pass was untouched by goalkeeper CJ Dos Santos and skipped into back of their net. United could just watch as they were gifted an early lead in the eighth minute. […]

The once perennial Minnesota high school baseball power reclaimed its throne Saturday at Target Field, as Cretin-Derham Hall edged Minnetonka 3-2 in the Class 4A title game for the programs first title since 2007 its last state tournament appearance until this spring. It required a rally. Minnetonka scored twice in the second frame to […]

The Rock Island Swing Bridge in Inver Grove Heights will celebrate its latest $550K update on June 17.

Juneteenth is a federal holiday Thursday marking the day when slaves in Texas were told about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it had been announced.

Lawmakers reduced spending by $5 billion to help prepare the state for shortfalls expected later in the decade, but they also made a few tweaks to state policy.

It was all about the start and finish for Cooper Anderson and the Edina boys lacrosse team on Saturday night. And that was enough to carry the Hornets to a state title. Anderson, a senior midfielder, scored twice as his team jumped out to a six-goal lead in the first half. Then he added another […]

Pope Leo urged those listening to be beacons of hope capable of inspiring others.

Sam Burns is the leader heading into Round 4 on Sunday, but Scott has the best resum among the contenders.

The assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, is just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

The oft-injured infielder has a strained left hamstring, the same one that caused him to miss 35 games this season.

Denied on the doorstep each of the past two seasons, there was no turning Mahtomedi back in the Class 3A state title game.

Abby Grove and her teammates on the Prior Lake girls lacrosse team began the 2025 season with a win over Stillwater, and thats how they closed it as well – beating the Ponies 13-8 in the girls lacrosse state championship game Saturday afternoon at Eden Prairie High School. Grove — this seasons Minnesota State High […]

HOUSTON Joe Ryan gave the Twins everything they needed from him on Saturday. And after getting two suboptimal starts that lasted five innings in their past two games, they needed a lot from the right-hander. They needed some length. They needed him to give them a chance after falling into two straight noncompetitive games […]