Sioux Valley Energy and Basin Electric Power Cooperative presented Rock County with a $10,000 check to purchase new ...

Rock County’s biggest news stories in 2025 follow a theme of growth, development and progress, and the Star Herald headlines ...

Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary teachers and staff are settling into their new spaces at the new elementary school in Beaver ...

Sam Hansen asks third-grader Vance Dressen if the stocking cap and/or water bottle Hansen found on the bus was his items.

Looking back at the sporting events covered in the Star Herald during 2025, I was amazed at all the accomplishments of our ...

Greg Hoogeveen photo/LHSBBB1 LHS junior Coy Thone reaches for a high pass under the hoop on the road Monday, Dec. 22, against ...

Starla Scholten is honored for her 30 years of dedication to the Hills-Beaver Creek School District last week in a social ...

Luverne Mayor Pat Baustian receives $11,000 per year. City Council members are paid $9,000 per year plus a per diem of $50 for three hours or less and $100 for a full day of more than three hours, not ...

A rollercoaster of temperatures descended on the area this weekend after a warm, foggy and brown Christmas. Saturday’s temperatures reached 49 degrees before a strong weather front dropped an inch of ...

The following is a list of the obituaries that appeared in the issues of the Rock County Star Herald in 2025. Dec. 21: Cynthia McDowell, 82, Fruita, Colo.; Vance Kohl, 87, Eagle Point, Wisc. Dec. 23: ...

Did any of you make a New Year’s resolution? Mine is to finally reach my Goodreads reading goal.

I really need someone to tell how much it is going to snow this winter. We got snow early on and in one weekend hunting pheasants in South Dakota it made it all the way to 12 below zero.