Dequindre “DQ” Spencer looms large — literally — in 12-year-old Jake Bidwell’s life. The beefy 23-year-old former Minnesota State football player is a Big Brother to his young charge in the Mankato ...

Duluth's Sister Cities program is being recognized as the best in the world for its size. But the program can't afford to send someone to accept the award. The Duluth program was named "Best Overall ...

Many people's lives have been changed by the Duluth-Petrozavodsk sister city relationship. Here's a look at three of them. For Irina and Andy Ensign of Proctor, the sister city relationship led to ...

MANKATO — Asked how many children have been paired with adult mentors over the last 50 years of the Mankato YMCA’s brother/sister program, Cheryl Hamond started doing the math. If you average 75 ...

Greenfield Mayor Guy Titus holds a gift given to him by Mayor Tori Kurosu of Kakuda, Japan. The two were part of a dinner Tuesday celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Sister Cities relationship ...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has put pause to the customary travel among sister cities, but Hawaii County and local organizations have found workarounds to keep the relationships alive until ...

The Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco started the Friend a Sister Program during COVID to continue their work in the community. They are still going strong and want you to find friendship and faith ...

Three years ago, the Valor Academy Elementary School and the Valor Academy High School in Arleta matched grade school students with high school students, in hope that the younger students and older ...

For years, the game of golf has brought students from 'across the pond' together with Grapevine students. "Getting to come over here and see a different part of the world and experience a different ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Hot Springs' Sister City program won the Sister Cities International 2024 annual award for innovation in business, trade and professional exchange for a city with a population of 25,001 ...

St. Scholastica Academy in Covington is known for encouraging students to grow in sisterhood throughout their years in high school. In an effort to enhance bonds among students in all grades and help ...

NORWALK — Norwalk has a new sister city: Riobamba. And for the past three weeks, six art students from the Ecuadorian city have been the first to benefit from the new partnership, studying art, dance ...