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Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Theft 6:13 p.m. Sunday, 200 block of Roosevelt Road Southwest. A trolling motor was reported stolen. 8:59 a.m. Saturday,...

PB Expressway meeting set WALKER — The second meeting of the Paul Bunyan Expressway Coalition will be hosted at 10:30 a.m. today in the Onigum Room at the Northern Lights...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...