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

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 ...

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

In the following, I am highlighting my “Top 5 Ag Topics for 2025,” based on issues that were discussed in my columns throughout the year.

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.

As Jim and I reviewed our personal highlights of 2025, we were amused to conclude the year's "best" was the wooden patio screen we built from repurposed hog barn lumber.

Commissioners approved pay increases for county employees at their last meeting of 2025 on Dec. 16. The increases take effect Jan. 1. Most of the increases follow the 3-percent cost of living increase ...

City of Luverne union employees are negotiating a new contract that will be in effect for the next three years. Meanwhile, at their Dec. 18 meeting the City Council approved 2.25-percent step ...

Starla Scholten is honored for her 30 years of dedication to the Hills-Beaver Creek School District last week in a social media post on the district site, HBC Patriots. Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary ...

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

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

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: ...