Herald staff gathered a total of 16 awards at this year’s Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest.

Austin’s Joseph Company earns ABC’s top Eagle Award for its 2025 restoration and expansion of the Paramount Theatre, ...

Shrine Masons give $11,187 to the Salvation Army food shelf, part of a bell-ringing effort dating to the 1950s that has ...

• Take a simple 15 or 20 minutes a day, and sit down and read together. Reading not only expands vocabulary and knowledge but ...

After a program-first Big 9 sweep, the Austin Packer Dance Team chases a 25th straight state berth with a creepy-children ...

Discover how ice crystals and winter skies create sundogs, sun pillars and halos — and when to look up from the Nature Center ...

In 1874 Austin, Minn., temperance crusaders, saloonkeepers and city officials clashed over a steep new liquor license, ...

Amy Klobuchar enters Minnesota’s governor race with scant DFL opposition, a record of bipartisan appeal and big wins, but Republicans tie her to Walz-era welfare fraud scandals.

Whether every detail in that article is correct or not, it’s clear that at least some of what we’ve seen has been organized.

The song of Hiawatha beats in our hearts, reflecting a passion for peace and unity. Like Minnehaha, fallen heroes lie under ...

Riverland Community College hosts Blue Devils Fan Appreciation Day Feb. 4 with free admission, swag, student food and a $100 ...

An Osage, Iowa man died after the car he rode in hit a deer and was struck by another vehicle on I-90 east of Austin.