ST. CLOUD — The decades-long mystery of a dead infant found in St. Augusta in 1980 has come to an end, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday. Using DNA testing and other ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has quarantined a Stearns County, Minnesota, dairy herd after samples collected as part of Minnesota's milk surveillance plan tested positive for H5N1, ...

CROSBY — Unlimited Learning will host a presentation about bootlegging “moonshine” whiskey in Stearns County during Prohibition (1920-1933) at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 at Heartwood Senior Living in Crosby ...

H5N1, also known as bird flu, has been found in a Stearns County dairy herd, according to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). Authorities say the virus was detected in samples collected as ...

Home sales are down month to month but up 11.11% since this time last year.

Stearns County officials warn that proposed shifts in state cost-sharing could lead to local property tax increases. The county human services department faces the largest potential impact, with ...

The 911 emergency line is back up and running after an outage Saturday afternoon affected multiple counties in the metro area. According to officials, a routing outage is affected 911 calls that were ...

MAINE PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP, STEARNS COUNTY — An 80-year-old Watkins man died in a three-vehicle accident on Friday in Stearns County that also injured two others. The victim, Elton Keith Hatcher, was ...