Soft piano music could be heard coming from the Gibbon sunflower field as bees and monarch butterflies darted around the ...

Republican nominee for governor Lisa Demuth said that if elected in November, she would direct her administration to “find $1 billion in savings across all agencies,” in an effort to make life more ...

Streets in Wood Lake were packed with people on Wednesday during the final day of the city’s annual three-day fair. The Wood ...

In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, ...

With the SMSU football season soon to be underway, new sports editor Daniel Lins started a podcast with SMSU head football ...

Notes courtesy of SMSU Athletics Communications. THIS WEEK •The Southwest Minnesota State University football program (0-0, 0-0 NSIC) opens its 58th season on Thursday night hosting Valley City State ...

Area residents showed some interest this week in a state grant program to address emerald ash borer in their communities. On Monday, representatives of area communities and organizations met with ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an ...

Technology stocks led Wall Street on Thursday after Nvidia, Salesforce and others reported even fatter profits for the spring than analysts expected. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% and pulled closer to its all ...

A good-sized crowd of area residents gathered in Wood Lake for the Wood Lake Fair’s grand parade on Wednesday evening. Parade ...

The fall kick-off session for GOLD College will be held in the Conference Center Upper Level at SMSU on Wednesday, Sept. 9, starting at 1:30 p.m. with registration and social time. The fall ...

Surely not everyone in America is a country music fan, right? Nor is everyone simply mega fans of 1980s hit rom-coms and movie dramas either. So what gives? What exactly made Dolly Parton, the country ...