A crash impacted westbound traffic in Orono during the Thursday evening commute. According to the MnDOT 511 map, the crash happened in the area of Highway 6 between Long Lake and Maple Plain. As of 5:30 p.

For over 30 years, the Orono Lions put on a day of ice golf, festivities, and music at its SnowBall Open. With minimal ice last year, that run of hosting

Watch the two of the best high school girls basketball teams in the Metro West Conference meet at 7 p.m. on startribune.com.

As part of our commitment to expanding high school sports coverage, we’ll be livestreaming high school basketball and hockey games from across the state for the remainder of the winter sports season on startribune.

The Orono Boys Swim & Dive team traveled to Bloomington Kennedy last weekend to compete in the Section 2A True Team meet.

The Alexandria boys and girls basketball teams are ranked No. 4 in the Minnesota Basketball News Class 3A rankings (Jan. 29, 2025 edition). The Alexandria boys basketball team (12-3) is ranked No. 4 in Class 3A behind Mankato East (14-1),

Articles and videos about Gophers’ Danny Striggow accepts late call to Senior Bowl on FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.

After a small fire earlier this month, that’s exactly what China Garden in Orono had to do. Following a deep clean, they re-opened for business just in time for the New Year, mu

New Hampshire takes on the Maine Black Bears after Sami Pissis scored 33 points in the Wildcats' 97-80 loss to the UMass-Lowell River Hawks

The Waconia boys hockey team lost a pair of close games last week, falling to Breck 4-2 and Orono 4-2. Waconia and Breck exchanged goals in the first period, as the two sides went into the intermission tied at 2-2,

David La Vaque is a high school sports reporter who has been the lead high school hockey writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune since 2010. He is co-author of “Tourney Time,” a book about the history of Minnesota’s boys hockey state tournament published in 2020 and updated in 2024.

At its first meeting of the year on January 6, the Westonka School Board reviewed progress on its four strategic tactics, continuing its efforts to provide an exceptional K-12 education