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David Palmer scored 12 points and Kyle Larson added 11 as the Wildcat boys’ basketball team overcame an eight-point first quarter deficit to roll to a 49-37 victory over Ashland in a WIAA regional quarterfinal game Tuesday, March 3, in River Falls. After allowing 14 points to...

The River Falls gymnastics team qualified for its 14th straight WIAA state tournament and the Wildcat girls’ basketball team won its first regional championship in five years Saturday, Feb. 28, in River Falls. The gymnasts won the sectional team title with a season-high score...

Top-seeded Hayward-Spooner scored a shorthanded goal in the final minute of the second period to snap a scoreless tie and added an insurance goal in the third period to defeat the third-seeded St. Croix Valley Fusion, 2-0, in a WIAA girls’ hockey sectional final Friday night, Feb....

The St. Croix Valley Fusion girls’ hockey team advanced to the sectional final for the eighth straight season with a 3-1 victory over the Eau Claire-Altoona Stars Tuesday night, Feb. 24, in Eau Claire. Freshman Kamryn Jacobs scored all three Fusion goals, including two in the...

The St. Croix Valley Fusion scored four goals in a seven-minute span of the second period on their way to an 8-0 victory over Chippewa Falls-Menomonie in a WIAA girls’ hockey regional final game Thursday, Feb. 19, at the United Civic Center in Baldwin. In boys regional playoff...

--Dan Wilcox, outdoor columnist Aldo Leopold once wrote, “Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?” I’m attracted to blank spots on maps. Venturing to blank spots on maps has been a life-long aspiration. When our country was young the...

Carol and I are enjoying our stay in Cedar Key, a small town on a group of islands on the Gulf Coast of Florida. After a long drive through the pine woods west of Gainesville, the view opens up to a vast expanse of tidal marsh grass, mangroves and oyster bars. The islands around Cedar...

In a deep field featuring five star-ranked teams, the Wildcats wrestled to a seventh place finish at the 12-team Big Rivers Conference/Dunn-St. Croix Conference Challenge last Saturday in River Falls. Three Wildcats finished third in their respective weight classes and five won...

At the end of a sleepless night, three-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady was still soaking in the magnitude of his historic fourth Lombardi Trophy...

GLENDALE, Arizona, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The Seattle Seahawks were left stunned after coming up one yard short of a second straight Super Bowl title on Sunday following one of the wildest ever finishes to a National Football League championship. Seattle, who enjoyed some good fortune...

River Falls High School senior Izzy Lucking signed a letter of intent recently to play soccer at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa beginning in the fall of 2015. Lucking is a two-time All-Big Rivers Conference selection under head coach Charles Conley with her senior season...