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GARRISON — Anglers going fishing right at midnight on the Minnesota fishing opener are treated to a display of northern lights on Saturday, May 11, 2024, on Mille Lacs Lake in Garrison.
Most anglers were catching at least a few walleyes Saturday morning on the St. Louis River in Duluth.
The house at 630 Riverside Drive even earned a new nickname during the episode: "Joe and Jack's Technicolor Prison."
About three-quarters of Crow Wing County is now listed as abnormally dry, and no part of the county is listed in moderate or worse drought conditions.
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Tracking sunshine throughout the Brainerd Lakes Area today
Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, P.O. Box 974, Brainerd, MN, 56401.
Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, P.O. Box 974, Brainerd, MN, 56401.
If you have any questions concerning traffic related laws or issues in Minnesota, please send your questions in.
In an April 19 letter, the Minnesota Department of Corrections lifted penalties put in place after staff punished an inmate by withholding food for more than two days.
It’s the first time MnDOT will post signs in an Indigenous language outside reservation boundaries.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office took a report at 10:37 a.m. Sunday of an overdue kayaker on Nest Lake near Spicer. As of 1:15 p.m. the kayak had been found, but not the search continues for the kayaker.
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Fish were biting — even for Gov. Tim Walz — during the 2024 opener on Lake Pepin in Lake City.
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A group of parents at Forestview Middle School treated teachers to lunch at the SKOL Food Truck on Thursday, May 9, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.
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Researchers at Dakota State University are looking into how alfalfa honey could be used to fight plant and human pathogens.
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Inmates in-custody in the Crow Wing County jail in Brainerd, Minnesota
Inmates in-custody in the Aitkin County jail in Aitkin, Minnesota
Inmates in-custody in the Mille Lacs County jail in Milaca, Minnesota
Inmates in-custody in the Morrison County jail in Little Falls, Minnesota
Inmates in-custody in the Cass County jail in Walker, Minnesota or the Crow Wing County jail in Brainerd, MN
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