Swanville, Minnesota, spends the entire year raising money to reward its high school graduates with scholarships.

The Angle, as the 150 locals call it, is a pocket of Minnesota entirely surrounded by water and Canada. It’s only part of the ...

A tiny town in the middle of Minnesota is punching above its weight in fundraising scholarships for high school seniors. Swanville, with a population of just over 300 people, distributed more than ...

When Geranium Primary School was forced to close its doors due to dwindling enrolment numbers, it shut a century-old chapter for the tiny town. But then one former teacher with big dreams stepped ...

Tantoo Cardinal fell into a job at her hometown’s only store, where she learned that some gigs are worth well more than the ...

A resilient and compassionate Darling Downs town has raised more than $10,000 for the family of a five-year-old girl whose ...

Tiny town with big heart raises $10k for family of girl killed in crash near Toowoomba. ... The Cambooya State School year 1 student, Sadie, was killed in a car crash at Vale View on May 10, 2025.

Canada blocks the importation of a dizzying array of goods, even if they're just going from one part of Minnesota to this odd appendage of the state. That includes mattresses, potted plants, livestock ...

I’ve passed Crockett so many times in the last half-century, that I’m convinced it can’t live up to the legend built up in my mind. It appears like a model train village while crossing west over the ...

My sister and I lived in a small town in Iowa in the 80s and our most interesting thing was being identical twins. I had to ...

Like I said, it was a different time, you sort of had to figure things out, parents weren’t necessarily going to help you.