Minnesota rule: Gonads not factor for prep sports
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota High School League ruled that transgender athletes can [...]
McDonell High looks to new riverside site
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – McDonell Catholic Schools has bought 57 acres of what’s known [...]
School bus rear-ended; no injuries
ELK MOUND, Wis – A school bus on its morning rounds to pick up [...]
Sniff visit finds Houston County school drug-free
SPRING GROVE, Minn. – Winona County officers with their K-9 deputy made a sniff [...]
On Chatfield ballot: Replacing 70-year-old gym
CHATFIELD, Minn. – Voters in the Chatfield School District are beg asked to spend [...]
Gay view on Rochester school’s book ban
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The group Rochester Pride, which sponsors an annual Pride even, says [...]
Teen ticketed for vaping pens at school
WINONA, Minn. – Authorities at the Winona Middle School were tipped that a 14-year-old [...]
Winona schools close early as snow piles up
WINONA, Minn. – With road conditions deteriorating, Winona schools Superintendent Brad Berzinski released students [...]
No jail for shoplifting School Board member
RED WING, Minn. – A Red Wing School Board member, Rachel Marie Marshall Schoenfelder, [...]
Students act on school’s generosity theme
Care packs for foster kids. Assisted by Washington-Kosciusko grade school staff, students assembled bags [...]
False alarm: Explosive scare at Byron school
BYRON, Minn. -- Firefighters were called to Byron High School to investigate “suspicious substances” [...]
Anything criminal in Caledonia wrestling brawl?
CALEDONIA, Minn. -- Police Chief Kurt Zehnder has completed his investigation into a brawl [...]
Police investigate Caledonia wrestling brawl
Wrestling portrait. A major high school sport in Iowa border communities. The Caledonia and [...]
Car rear-ends school bus; injuries minor
CHATFIELD, Minn. – A child was injured slightly when the car in which he [...]
Water out at West Salem High; school cancelled
WEST SALEM, Wis. – The 600 students at West Salem High School were sent [...]
Budget woes beset Byron schools chief
BYRON, Minn. – A petition is making he rounds for the Byron school superintendent [...]
School bus rips up residential yards, hits house
HOLMEN, Wis. – A school bus starting its morning rounds to pick up children [...]
Four-day school week nixed in St. Charles
ST.CHARLES, Minn. – Discussion has dead-ended about St. Charles schools moving to a four-day [...]
Higher school budget cap rejected in Eyota
EYOTA, Minn. -- Voters in the Dover-Eyota School District overwhelmingly rejected an operating referendum. [...]
Byron voters: No to school tax increase
BYRON, Minn. – Voters turned down a School Board request to increase general education [...]
$8.9 million approved for Kingsland school upkeep
SPRING VALEY, Minn. – Voters split on a pair of school maintenance and upgrade [...]
Rochester voters shift, OK new school funds
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The second time around worked for the Rochester School Board. Voters [...]
2024 election: Winona School Board (Position 3)
WINONA, Minn. – No candidates filed for this School Board position. Jack Hedin and [...]
2024 election: Winona School Board (Position 4)
WINONA, Minn. – Gregory Fellman, a former School Board member and a retired accountant, [...]
2024 election: Winona School Board (Position 5)
WINONA, Minn. – Martin Stickney was unopposed for this School Board position. Stickney:2,962 (97.63%), [...]
Two Winona teachers honored for excellence
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Education Association named high school teacher Sarah Dixen and [...]
Spanish honorary inducts 15 Winona teens
WINONA, Minn. -- Fifteen Winona High School students have been inducted into the Tertulia [...]
St. Charles ponders four-day school week
ST. CHARLES, Minn.-- A proposal for a four-day school week was laid out by [...]
Gun threat reported on Winona school bus
WINONA, Minn. – An 11-year-old boy reported an older boy flashed a gang gesture [...]
A dot as an exercise for child creativity
Goodview kids each on a journey of self-exploration [...]
Teen cited for assault after Winona High fight
WINONA, Minn. – Two 15-year-old boys in an ongoing dispute about relationships got into [...]
Schools’ doctor-comes-to you project expands
WINONA, Minn. – Going into their third year, the in-school health clinics at the [...]
Smooth busing start for new Winona school year
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Schools busing system got off to a good start [...]
Threat of violence disrupts Elgin, Plainview schools
ELGIN, Minn. – Police frisked 250 students at Elgin Junior High School and searched [...]
Ready, set, go: But who’s driving?
Help wanted. The Lewiston’s school superintendent, Gwen Carman, draped a sheet on a bus [...]
New rule: Students to park cellphones before class
GALESVILLE, Wis. – This September the classrooms at the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School each has [...]
A welcome-back school gesture: A popsicle
ROCHESTER, Minn. – When classes began at Rochester Catholic Schools last week, the students [...]
Large Houston County day-care locks doors
SPRING GROVE, Minn. -- The Little Gnome day-care center, licensed for 90 children, closed [...]
Lewiston school funding back to voters
LEWISTON, Minn. – The Lewiston School Board is going back to voters for money [...]
Lewiston School Board sells field trip site
LEWISTON, Minn. -- The Lewiston-Altura School Board voted to sell 20 acres of forest [...]
New chief for Winona schools fund-raising
WININA, Minn. – A volunteer with the Foundation for Winona Area Public Schools, Jenny [...]
Cotter opens St. Nicholas childcare center
WINONA, Minn. – The new Cotter daycare center has opened with 75 kids, some [...]
Winona High bids farewell, good fortune to grads
Commencement messages: “Watch out world, here comes the Class of [...]
New personnel director at Winona schools
WINONA, Minn. – A career educator, Dawn Waller Lueck, has been appointed human resources [...]
No Winona child need be hungry over summer
WINONA, Minn. –The Winona school system again will offer free summer meals to all [...]
Prosecutor: No action on Rochester racial slur
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A single-word racial slur plastered across a pedestrian overpass in northeast [...]
Nobody files for Winona Schools seat
WINONA, Minn. – School Board member Stephanie Smith, torn whether to seek a second [...]
Project aims to counter summer knowledge loss
Peterson’s crew. In the back row to teacher Maeve Peterson’s left: Brody Ellinghuysen, Ronnie [...]
Twin fund-raisers buy Winona teaching tools
WINONA, Minn.—The WAPS Foundation, which raises money for Winona schools, has given $103,000 from [...]
Cops: School girl taking hits between classes
WINONA, Minn. – Police ticketed a Winona High School junior for possessing and using [...]
Three Winona School Board seats on ballot
WINONA, Minn. – Three of the seven seats on the Winona School Board are [...]
Schools step up minority faculty recruiting
WINONA, Minn. – The next personnel director at Winona Schools, for whom a search [...]
Aid available to build minority teaching corps
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona School District is looking for people of color who [...]
Winona art teacher up for national award
WINONA, Minn. – A teacher at Bluffview Montessori School, Shelly Merchlewitz, reached the third [...]
Bad brakes burn up on school bus
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Firefighters evacuated six school kids from a bus whose brake [...]
School bus driver in hot water for crash
HUDSON, Wis. – The driver of an Eau Claire school bus in a collision [...]
Cotter team wins machine design competition
They call themselves Brainiacs. Five Cotter Junior High School students aspiring to engineering careers [...]
Winona School Board adjusts boundary policy
WINONA, Minn. -- By voice vote the Winona School Board voted to give administrators [...]
Perfect in Galesville: 36 on college admit test
GALESVILLE, Wis. – A Galesville high school junior, Morgan Auman, couldn’t believe her own [...]
Osseo school sex conviction on appeal
WHITEHALL, Wis. -- A former Osseo-Fairchild High School teacher has appealed his conviction that [...]