In a matter of 24 hours, the #2-seeded Hermantown Hawks upended the #1-seeded Vikings in a section final game, preventing ...

A recent issue of Rotary magazine draws attention to the decline in friendships due to death, moving to a new community, job ...

In life, it’s often the little moments that surprise us with the greatest lessons. That happened to me last week as I ...

One of the biggest hot-button topics of the just-completed North Branch mayor and council elections was the nearly two ...

It might not have started out that way, but Jodi Donnay has now been given her dream job in being named Isanti County Health ...

Question: Every once in a while, I notice some vehicles stop in the road at the railroad tracks when nothing is coming. Can I ...

In a somewhat surprising change of pace, a public hearing regarding a street improvement project that included the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Eagle Lake, near the City of Big Lake in Sherburne County. A dead zebra mussel was found at the Eagle Lake ...

Being a part of North Branch Area Public Schools (NBAPS) means seeing firsthand how Viking pride runs deep, impacting our ...

Volunteers fill meal packages to be sent to areas around the world such as Ukraine, Honduras, or any other place where people ...

Starting next week, the Isanti-Chisago County Star will host a food drive. In the past, several of our sister newspapers have ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs, including white pine, red pine, Austrian pine, Norway spruce, white spruce, arborvitae, mugo pine, balsam fir and more, need water until the ground freezes. Given the ...