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Treatment facility seeks to expand Restore House of Bemidji is proposing a chemical dependency residential treatment facility in Helga Township. The planned nine-bed facility for men would allow the Bemidji...

BEMIDJI – Evergreen Youth & Family Services will host an open house today to celebrate its new site. In December, Evergreen relocated its headquarters and youth drop-in center to 610...

BEMIDJI – As more than half of Minnesota’s third-graders experience some degree of tooth decay, the Minnesota Department of Health has produced a strategic plan to address oral health care...

Boy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days. Smoking used to be so fashionable and hip in the James Dean and Steve McQueen days. Women who smoked used to...

Thank you to all the students and community members for their support and overwhelming response to the recent blood drives at Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College. Due to...

BEMIDJI – A benefit to help defray medical expenses for the family of Emi Totzauer is planned for Sunday. The event will feature a silent auction, face painting and spaghetti...

When you are used to cooking for a whole family, especially if it consists of growing boys, you cook big pots of chili, stew, soup, and the like. But when...

Here we are in the dead of winter. Or as the poet Christina Rosetti called it, “the bleak midwinter… snow on snow on snow.” Those are the lyrics to a...

BEMIDJI – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its missionaries donated items to the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety on Jan. 18. Items donated included diapers, clothing,...

By Danielle Killey and Don Davis, Forum News Service ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislators are considering raising cigarette taxes and the cost of little cigars by classifying them cigarettes, which...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new report says Minnesota hospitals provided $1.5 billion in uncompensated care in 2011. The Minnesota Hospital Association says that's 26 percent more than the previous year...