All homeowners are familiar with the ongoing debate over building maintenance and improvement projects. Is this the time to replace that faded, dented siding? Can exterior repainting wait another year ...

The Elk River Star News sat down with Janet McCarty three days after she was named Elk River’s Volunteer of the Year. Last ...

Is it true the northern lights will be more intense over the next 50 years, and if so, why? Will this have any negative ...

Elk River Fire Station 1, located on Jackson Street, was originally built in 1971 as a three-bay station. In 1989, three additional bays were added to accommodate a new aerial ...

Is it true the northern lights will be more intense over the next 50 years, and if so, why? Will this have any negative ...

Question: I have a new driver in the house and they asked a question that got me thinking. If someone has a crash and hits a power pole, what should ...

In a 2018 poll, 36% of Minnesotans said they thought state government was spending too much. In 2019, Tim Walz became governor. A 2025 poll asking the same question found ...

Roaming poems fill ArtReach’s Mobile Art Gallery with “Poets of Place,” at just a few more events around Stillwater. On Aug. 15-17, find the Mobile Art Gallery and Poets of ...

Life is good at Caughey Cattle Company. The family-owned beef operation is run by Mac and Stacey Caughey, both of whom have ...

Cambridge native Jim Fridstrom remembers the early days when he learned to hunt — and to use a gun. “I went with my dad’s ...

I’ve been noticing a lot of new growth in an area near my home that was for several years a horse pasture. So far this year, it has quickly been ...

VanAnda now is on the board for DAMSL, which fills up Sandquist Park in Cambridge several days each week. Its youth league ...