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License Bureau to be reimbursed for MNLARs

The Douglas County License Bureau will soon be getting a reimbursement grant worth more than $116,000 from the state. Interim director Susan Crotteau shared the news with Douglas County commissioners at the Tuesday county board meeting. Legislation signed by Gov. Tim Walz included...

News 1 hour 24 min ago

Cleaning water with barley?

At the tail end of a meeting about pollution in lakes Winona, Agnes and Henry, long-time fisheries operator Jim Bosek spoke up. "I believe I could make all three of those lakes crystal clear," said Bosek, who runs Bosek Fisheries, which supplies walleye fingerlings to the DNR. His...

News/science and nature 19 hours 23 min ago

Harlan Kirkeide, owner of Harlan's Boats R-Us, watched as an EF3 tornado ripped through Mentor, Minn. on June 17, 2010. Kirkeide recalls holding on to the front door of his businesses that day as price tags hit him in the back. After the storm passed he ran across the street to the convenience store to help others. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald

Targeted by tornadoes: Minnesota has had 1,800 twisters since 1950; North Dakota, 1,600

MENTOR, Minn. — On a recent June day, Harlan Kirkeide stood near his business in Mentor, Minn., and recalled the deadly tornado that ripped...

News/Weather June 23, 2019 - 6:20am

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Full steam ahead: Road construction projects underway around county

The color popping up around the county recently is orange, and not because it’s hunting season. Orange construction signs can be found on some...

News June 19, 2019 - 11:42am

Alexandria's Treyton Thompson battles for position in the post during a game against Fergus Falls on Feb. 1, 2019. Thompson recently got extended a scholarship offer from the University of Minnesota. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)

Basketball: Thompson excited to get an offer from the Gophers

Alexandria's Treyton Thompson was on his way to a team camp for a border rival of the University of Minnesota when he got an exciting phone call...

sports/basketball June 19, 2019 - 3:35pm

A pelican soars over the St. Louis River Valley. The largest white pelicans can have wingspans of 10 feet, an overall length of more than 60 inches, and weigh more than 20 pounds. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com

Western Minnesota pelicans slowly rebounding

MARSH LAKE, Minn. — White pelicans nesting on Marsh Lake in the Upper Minnesota River watershed appear to be rebounding from a decline in numbers...

sports/outdoors June 22, 2019 - 12:10pm

The "No MSing Around" rode in storms from Mankato to the finish line in St. Peter during last year's Bike MS tram ride. Pictured are (left to right) Karen Meyman, Betty Lou Eischens, Lynn Barton, Karla Brummond, Nikki Lohse, Kathy Woods, Heidi Hilzendeger, Kathy Sauer, Rochelle Walberg and Emmy Barth. (Contributed)

They're not 'MSing' around: Group rides, raises money for multiple sclerosis

Riding across the finish line of the Bike MS tram ride, Nikki Lohse has never had a dry eye. She doesn't expect this year to be any different. "The...

community/people June 19, 2019 - 8:49am

Some of the cast from Andria Theatre's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," during rehearsal. (Contributed)

Andria Theatre hosts student project: 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' opens June 20

Told entirely through song with the help of a narrator, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," now showing at the Andria Theatre, is...

News June 20, 2019 - 5:06pm

This photo shows Jerome "Jerry" Hennessey in Mexico in January 2013. The photo was taken by Arizona-based hunting company, Sonora Dark Horn. Courtesy of Sonora Dark Horn

Updated: Hennessey sentenced to 8 years in prison

FERGUS FALLS — Jerry Hennessey, the former general manager for the Ashby Farmers Cooperative Elevator, has been sentenced to eight years in...

News/crime and courts June 21, 2019 - 1:57pm

This bear was spotted across from the public access on the west side of Lake Carlos near Luther Crest Bible Camp. (Contributed)

Here a bear, there a bear

At first, Charlie Ruckheim couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a black bear up in a tree right behind his barn, about six miles southwest...

News June 21, 2019 - 10:11am

Lake Agnes treatment delayed

Authorities are delaying a planned aluminum sulfate treatment of Lake Agnes until 2020, instead planning to concentrate on tagging carp in Lake Winona, they said at a Tuesday evening meeting. The two lakes, plus Lake Henry, form a chain of lakes affected by the decades-old practice...

News/science and nature June 21, 2019 - 7:57am

Survivors stand on top of a pile of rubble left behind after a deadly tornado stuck Fergus Falls on June 22, 1919. Special to The Forum.

County remembers deadly Fergus Falls cyclone on 100th anniversary

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — 1919 was a rough year for Otter Tail County. The international flu pandemic had killed 235 people —most of them children...

News/Weather June 20, 2019 - 4:09pm

License Bureau to be reimbursed for MNLARs

The Douglas County License Bureau will soon be getting a reimbursement grant worth more than $116,000 from the state. Interim director Susan Crotteau shared the news with Douglas County commissioners at the Tuesday county board meeting. Legislation signed by Gov. Tim Walz included...

News 1 hour 24 min ago

Isaac Peterson (top) makes a leaping throw to first over the head of Kade Blankenship during Alexandria's 6-1 win over Ham Lake on Sunday morning in the final game of the Alexandria legion baseball tournament. (Jared Rubado / Echo Press)

Baseball: Post 87 finishes home tournament on a high note

Alexandria Legion baseball catcher Riley Simonson assisted on the final out in his second consecutive game behind the plate. With a Ham Lake...

sports/baseball 11 hours 17 min ago

Cleaning water with barley?

At the tail end of a meeting about pollution in lakes Winona, Agnes and Henry, long-time fisheries operator Jim Bosek spoke up. "I believe I could make all three of those lakes crystal clear," said Bosek, who runs Bosek Fisheries, which supplies walleye fingerlings to the DNR. His...

News/science and nature 19 hours 23 min ago

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