Kevin Wald (pictured) spends 100 days a year on the road.

Stephen Paulus’ Prayers & Remembrances won a Grammy Award Monday for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

“The fair is kind of a way of life for me,” Elaine Mitteness of Benson said last week as the Monitor-News interviewed

The following is an article written by Kathy A.

April and May saw very strong winds while farmers worked their fields

Benson High School is set to celebrate its annual Snow Week the week of Monday, Feb. 8 through Saturday, Feb.

Sunday afternoon the sound of a helicopter passing low overhead signaled a LifeLink III helicopter on its way to pick

Efforts to reopen the Prairie Correctional Facility (PCF) in Appleton have run into a roadblock, of sorts, at the sta

1989 Benson High School graduate Eric Holtan will be headed to Los Angeles, CA, in February for the 58th Annual Gramm

Benson City Manager Rob Wolfington and Stantec’s Peggy Harder talk with area citizens about options for improving saf

In looking back at the weather highlights of 2015, there was one statistic that jumped out – Swift County saw more to

Monday, Jan. 11, the City of Benson is conducting an open house in the council chambers from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

By Reed Anfinson

Swift County’s net levy has been set at $9,830,278, an increase of $423,313 or 4.5 percent over 2015’s levy.

Now that Swift County and Federated Telephone Company have been awarded a $4.95 million state grant to expand broadba

As the Swift County-Benson Hospital governing board moves forward with redesigning the facility to offer a broad rang

Benson set a record temperature Thursday when the low only fell to 36 degrees.