The Amery Area Community Center will use grant funds from the St. Croix Valley for mental health initiatives. The center will ...

Providing services for a growing and aging population, the Polk County Aging and Disability Resource Center has its focus these days on residents with transportation needs.

While scouting plants in your yard or garden, perhaps you have noticed unusual bumps or growth extensions on the leaf ...

The Polk County Fair is coming up soon, happening in the next few weeks. Thursday, July 24, the gates will open at 7 a.m. for ...

With utility work at Sundance Place nearly halfway finished and wastewater treatment upgrades reaching 70% completion, Amery city officials say they're focused on timing critical repairs before road c ...

After a week of touring the nation's capital and connecting with peers from across the country, two Polk-Burnett Electric ...

After a night’s rest in Amery, a Colorado man known only as Tim is continuing a months-long trek from Minnesota’s northern ...

With 25 years of hands-on service behind them, members of the Amery Congregational Church Mission Team are already looking ...

A section of Keller Avenue on the south end of town developed a small sinkhole. The affected part of the road was blocked off ...

Gov. Tony Evers today appointed Jodi Kummet as Barron County Sheriff. The appointment fills a vacancy created by Sheriff ...

I went swimming for the first time in probably seven years over the Fourth of July weekend. After talking with Stacia Bank for the Laker, it got me thinking about ...

Karen Frye was injured outside her rural Barron County residence Saturday, July 12, in what DNR officials describe as an “aggressive” bear attack. She was initially taken to a local hospital before ...