Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as the market posted its fifth straight gain and the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched another record high. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The benchmark index’s 1.7% ...

Heavy rain from a major storm prompted evacuations from communities near a Northern California river that forecasters said could breach its banks Friday, as the system continued to dump heavy snow in ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary. Trump also said he would ...

Every year, the Community Friends Thanksgiving Dinner is held in the basement of St. Mary’s Church in New Ulm, with hundreds ...

New Ulm shut out Windom 14-0 in a nonconference boys hockey game on Friday. Carson Uecker had a hat track with three goals and three assists for the Eagles, while Hunter Larson had two goals and three ...

Staff photo by Fritz Busch Samarah and Dave Forster of Sleepy Eye will hold an open house for their new dance studio, Flo ...

The South District, West Subdistrict football awards were announced Friday, with several area players being honored. Springfield took home three individual awards as senior Brayden Sturm was named the ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Public School Board unanimously approved the revised 2024 Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR) Plan/Achievement and Integration Summary Thursday. Approval came on ...

With Penn State’s strong push for a spot in the College Football Playoff still a couple of wins from completion, the biggest roadblock to a bid for the Nittany Lions in this favorable final third of ...

Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump. The property, which Texas ...

More than 60 years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, conspiracy theories still swirl and any new glimpse into the fateful day of Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas continues to fascinate.

The Martin Luther College football team had a nice haul of All-Upper Midwest Athletic Conference selections, as the Knights racked up 12 honors, while junior Andrew Esmay earned Defensive Player of ...