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Alcohol, speed suspected factors in northern Minnesota crash that left woman dead, 4 injured

The driver, who survived, is a 23-year-old man from Walker, Minn.
March 18, 2025
High Schools

Prep Athletes of the Week: Ai’Jhon Douglas helps St. Paul Harding’s basketball reach state tournament

Also, Hopkins sophomore Erma Walker plays part in girls basketball state history.
March 18, 2025
News & Politics

Minnesota cuts employment services for people with disabilities

Some in the field fear state’s abrupt steps to rein in costs are hurting those with disabilities and will lead to waitlists.
March 17, 2025
Like thousands of other high school graduates in Minnesota, Chris McIntire went straight to work at a segregated workshop, where he did menial factory work for sub minimum wages. Then in 2017, the state Vocational Rehabilitation program stepped in and found Chris a job for $10/hour at Friendly Buffalo Restaurant in Big Lake, Minn. Here, McIntire whistles to the Bob Dylan song The Times They Are a Changing', while washing dishes with his job coach Jaime Klatt looking on Friday, May 11, 2018, at t
Greater Minnesota

‘Priceless property’: 3M’s historic northern Minnesota resort to become public land

Public trusts paid $5.3 million for the 450 acres near Park Rapids and will turn over the property to the DNR.
March 17, 2025
Bemidji

Tolkkinen: It’s hard to find sympathy for the worst people in Minnesota

But we need to do better for the inmates of prisons and county jails.
AuthoredKaren Tolkkinen
March 15, 2025
Surveillance footage shows an incapacitated Hardel Sherrell collapsing into a wheelchair as a Beltrami County Jail staffer looks on on Sept. 2, 2018. Sherrell died the following day.
Outdoors

Minnesota DNR loosens walleye regulations on Mille Lacs for entire season

The new, two-fish limit is the most generous in years, a sign of resurgence for the lake.
March 13, 2025
A small walleye is pulled in on the Twin Pines Resort boat during an evening excursion on Lake Mille Lacs in 2015.
Bemidji

Family of man who died in Bemidji jail got some justice and wants more

Del Shea Perry is hoping charges filed against a former nurse implicated in her son’s death send a message against medical neglect.
March 11, 2025
Bemidji

Nurse accused of depriving Beltrami County jail inmate of care faces manslaughter, neglect charges

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced the charges Friday against Michelle Skroch, nursing director at the since-shuttered MEnD Correctional Care in the death of 27-year-old Hardel Sherrell.
March 8, 2025
Surveillance footage shows an incapacitated Hardel Sherrell collapsing into a wheelchair as a Beltrami County Jail staffer looks on on Sept. 2, 2018. Sherrell died the following day.
Bemidji

Three men plead guilty to 2023 murder in Bemidji

Andrew Fisher, 18, was stabbed to death during a robbery.
March 7, 2025
Greater Minnesota

Cragun’s Resort, family-owned for 85 years, sold to hospitality company

Owner Dutch Cragun will sell the beloved resort on Gull Lake in Brainerd to investors with Leisure Hotels and Resorts, headquartered in nearby Baxter.
March 5, 2025
Greater Minnesota

Move over, fourth-graders. Today is Third Graders Day, thanks to a Minnesota girl.

The girl from White Earth Nation asked nicely, and Gov. Tim Walz proclaimed Monday a nod to students known for “their natural optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm.”
March 4, 2025
Agriculture

After a decade, Minnesota beef farmers finally having a good year

The pandemic and drought drove huge sell-offs in the cattle market. This year, cattle prices are giving ranchers solid profits.
March 1, 2025
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