St. Joseph will soon have a new mayor, Adam Scepaniak, one new city-council member, Adam Schnettler, as well as a re-elected incumbent council member, Kelly Beniek.

Two incumbents (Tricia Meling, Matthew Moehrle) and one new candidate (Chelsea Thielen) won the election, defeating challengers Aaron Alexander, Michael Gruber and Michael Ringstad.

The gun was not loaded. The student who placed the gun there was contacted and was found to have no ammunition (bullets) in his possession, and no ammunition was found in the school. The student has ...

photo by Carolyn Bertsch Ava Kosberg, 3, of Sartell puts her trust in Sartell firefighter Captain Brian Heim Oct. 10 before ...

The election was historic because it’s the first time in U.S. history a former president won re-election four years after being defeated in his bid for a second term. In 2016, Trump won over candidate ...

photo by Carolyn Bertsch Kids rush to the aid of St. Joseph Police Officer Russ Lipinski when he accidentally spills a dish ...

St. Cloud Area School District Superintendent Laurie Putnam, a former Kennedy Community School principal, has been declared Minnesota Superintendent of the Year for 2025. That award was just recently ...

Early voting for the Nov. 5 General Election continues through Monday, Nov. 4. The general election is set for Tuesday, Nov. 5, and people can vote in-person at their local precincts that day from 7 a ...

The biggest news from the Nov. 5 general election is former President Donald Trump will again be President of the United States, but there was also plenty of news in local and state elections. As of ...

Elijah McGraw applies a green gel to a dental typodont Oct. 25 as Owen Woodruff looks on. Both are 15 and from Sartell. Dental Hygiene was one of many career paths available for students to explore at ...

The newest tactic to suppress and/or eliminate books from libraries is to declare this or that non-fiction book a “work of fiction” in an effort to invalidate it. Case in point: “Colonization and the ...

A single-vehicle crash Nov. 7 has sent a St. Stephen woman to the St. Cloud Hospital. At approximately 2:49 a.m. Nov. 7, the Stearns County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call ...