Jennifer Woodford is president of the Rochester Area Foundation.

Iowa Lakes Foundation recently awarded Iowa Lakes Community College students scholarships for the Fall of 2025. Spencer Kober and Aaron Terpstra, of Rochester, were among the recipients. The ...

Best to get ‘em — get ‘em all. They’ll soon be gone.

MARION TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Two people from Chatfield were injured after a two-vehicle crash Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, on Highway 14 near Rochester.

Randy Munson, of Rochester, has been clowning for more than five decades, a gig that has taken him all over the world. As the polka-dotted, red-nosed “Circles the Clown, ” Munson has performed at the ...

A national network that carried out a federal commitment to integration is under threat to lose public funding.

After the federal administration indicated it would release the education funding that it had previously frozen for review, ...

Experts say some of the maybe 5,000 or more sacred petroglyphs are up to 7,000 years old and were likely carved by very early ...

In a land of blue skies and seas of green corn stalks growing, Dennis and Debra Siems say their family land is like “a piece ...

Total enrollment in the village and rural schools of Olmsted County is 5,868, according to W.L. Mercer, county superintendent ...

More overcast skies return to the region for the weekend.

Community development staff says variance policy is designed to provide flexibility amid strict sign guidelines adopted in development code.