University of Minnesota Morris alumnus and Arizona Cardinals General Manager Monti Ossenfort will serve as the commencement speaker for the University of Minnesota Morris on May 10.

The Luverne girls’ golf team traveled to Worthington Friday, April 4, for an 18-hole invitational of seven teams. Teams invited were Murray County Central, Fairmont, Lakeview, Jackson County Central, ...

The Patriots golf team traveled to take on Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda Friday, April 4, for their first match of the season. The H-BC boys’ team fell 176-193 to the Coyotes in 9-hole play.

The Luverne boys’ tennis team traveled Saturday, April 5, for a doubleheader against Yellow Medicine and Montevideo. The Cardinals fell 7-0 in both meets, due in part to Luverne’s limited varsity ...

Individual winners at the Southwest Minnesota Spelling Bee Saturday in Luverne include (from left) DaLonnie Cummings, second ...

A Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School teacher will receive a special surprise April 17 as part of the middle school robotics ...

Two H-BC seniors, Beau Bakken and Sawyer Bosch, received Red Rock Conference all-conference honorable mention recognition.

The Luverne baseball team opened their 2025 season beating Pipestone 9-1 and Worthington 12-2 Thursday, April 3, at the Sanford Sports Complex in Sioux Falls. Conditions were cool and overcast with ...

Jim and Judy Brandenburg established Touch the Sky Prairie in 2001 to restore a portion of Rock County’s land (near the area where Jim grew up) to native Tallgrass Prairie. The Brandenburg Gallery in ...

It was 1992. I was a young pup reporter for the Rock County Star Herald and was assigned to cover speakers for the Luverne School’s 125th anniversary.

Luverne’s Braydon Ripka, 21, is working this week in Window Rock, Arizona, with a team of volunteers for the 2025 Light Up the Navajo Nation initiative.

A lawsuit filed against Rock County five years ago was dismissed in early March when the plaintiffs failed to appear in Minnesota Tax Court.