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Clarifying the code: School board discusses changes to dress code for students

BEMIDJI — Clarifications to the Bemidji High School dress code was among the most-debated topics Monday at the district’s School Board meeting. Having to approve the student handbook for every...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 10:43pm

Northern Township: Let’s talk

BEMIDJI — Northern Township board supervisors want to talk to their joint planning partners. Board supervisors asked their legal counsel Jason Kuboushek about the ramifications of the city and Bemidji...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 10:38pm

Apartments to be built: South shore land to be bought for $350,000

BEMIDJI —A new apartment building is slated for the city’s south shore. A Grand Forks, N.D., developer will pay the city of Bemidji about $350,000 for a piece of land...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 10:35pm

Ventura wants 'American Sniper' lawsuit to proceed

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle to go forward...

news Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 9:17pm

Board agrees to restructure Excelsior loan

EVELETH — Minnesota lawmakers who make up the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board on Monday gave their blessing to a plan to restructure a $9.15 million loan with troubled...

news Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 8:19pm

No ID in child death at Spirit Lake

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. -- The FBI and federal Bureau of Indian Affairs continue to investigate the death Thursday of a 3-year-old boy on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. Neither the...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 8:01pm

New apartment complex to be built near Sanford Center

BEMIDJI-- A new apartment building is slated for the city’s south shore. A Grand Forks, N.D. developer will pay about $350,000 for a piece of land near the Sanford Center,...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 7:28pm

Bemidji firefighter Chris Loebs helps to free Frank Martin from his truck Monday afternoon. — JUSTIN GLAWE | BEMIDJI PIONEER

Man cited for DWI in Monday afternoon rollover accident

BEMIDJI — A 67-year-old man was cited for DWI following a three-car accident that sent his vehicle onto its side Monday afternoon. Frank Austin Martin was arrested after the accident,...

news Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 6:37pm

American Indian communities receive housing grants

BEMIDJI — Area American Indian communities will benefit from federal grants aimed at providing affordable housing. The funds were provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Indian...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 5:31pm

Minnesota native among 8 new astronauts

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota native is among NASA's new class of eight astronauts. Thirty-nine-year-old Josh Cassada is originally from White Bear Lake. Cassada is a former naval aviator who...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 3:59pm

Minnesota man fatally struck by shrapnel at party

RUSHFORD, Minn. (AP) — A southeastern Minnesota man has died after he was accidentally struck by shrapnel during a bachelor-bachelorette party west of Rushford. Fillmore County Sheriff Daryl Jensen says...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 3:58pm

Michel L’Hour, director of France’s Department of Underwater Archaeological Research, prepares to dive to what explorers believe may be the site of the long-lost ship the Griffin, Saturday, June 15, 2013 in northern Lake Michigan. Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

Remote Michigan village abuzz over shipwreck search

FAIRPORT, Mich. (AP) — Commercial fisherman Larry Barbeau's comings and goings usually don't create much of a stir in this wind-swept Lake Michigan outpost, but in the past few days,...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 1:50pm

Advocates call MNsure enrollment system unfair

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's new online health insurance exchange is hiring people to help residents sign up for its health plans. But advocates say the system is unfair...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 1:46pm

Care giver for highway toddler charged

SANDSTONE, Minn. (AP) — A day care provider has been charged in Pine County with neglecting a toddler who wandered onto a highway and was nearly struck. A criminal complaint...

news / region Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 1:44pm

Illegal burn results in neighbor’s garage catching fire

BEMIDJI — An illegal burning of one homeowner’s allergy irritants covering his lawn resulted in his neighbor’s garage catching fire Sunday evening. Bemidji firefighters were called to the 7700 block...

news / local Mon, Jun 17, 2013 - 1:35pm

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