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Wade Martin and his daughter, Sophia, work together early Friday morning to make the sidewalk safe along Fourth Street in downtown Bemidji after a night of freezing rain. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Cloudy, with a chance of cold and snow

BEMIDJI – Here’s the forecast for Saturday from the National Weather Service – verbatim, because the folks there probably know best how to make things sound as jarringly terrible as...

news / local Sat, Jan 12, 2013 - 12:31am

MnDOT lifts no travel advisory, numerous events remain canceled

BEMIDJI – State highway conditions improved Friday morning after road crews worked to improve hazardous driving conditions. In a mid-morning news release, the Minnesota Department of Transportation backed off from...

news / local Fri, Jan 11, 2013 - 11:31am

Tips offered to help motorists during inclement weather

BEMIDJI – The Minnesota Department of Transportation issued warnings Thursday to advise drivers to use caution driving through Saturday. Freezing rain and snow was expected to create a wintery mix...

news / local Thu, Jan 10, 2013 - 10:53pm

Major storm expected to bring ice, snow

BEMIDJI – A winter storm watch and freezing rain advisory has been issued for the Bemidji area and northwest Minnesota – just in front of unseasonably high temps. The National...

news / local Thu, Jan 10, 2013 - 10:50pm

There is the potential for close to a foot of snow over portions of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, northwestern Nebraska, the Dakotas and into northwestern Minnesota. Heavy snow will also graze Canada from southern Alberta to Northwest Ontario, according to Accuweather.com.

UPDATED: BHS cancels wrestling meet after forecast calls for wintery weather

BEMIDJI – The melt is on here as temperatures jumped into the mid 40s today, but the forecast calls for a brutal change. The National Weather Service in Grand Forks,...

news / local Thu, Jan 10, 2013 - 2:23pm

As dry soils shrink, southern Minnesota homes sink

WASECA, Minn. (AP) — As the drought deepens, homeowners across southern Minnesota are reporting shifting foundations and cracks in basements and walls. The dry conditions effectively have been locked into...

news / region Mon, Jan 07, 2013 - 9:19am

Some wells in Duluth area running dry due to extended drought

DULUTH – Cindy Mackay thought her pump was broken when she turned on the tap on Halloween and no water came out. But when the repairman came to her Rice...

news / region Mon, Dec 31, 2012 - 9:22am

Snowstorm heads east after South twisters; 3 dead

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South began punching its way toward...

news Wed, Dec 26, 2012 - 8:43am

Nasty storms blamed 1 death, make travel tough

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Freezing rain and sleet made for a sloppy Christmas trek in parts of the nation's midsection, while residents along the Gulf Coast faced thunderstorms, high winds...

news Tue, Dec 25, 2012 - 5:20pm

St. Paul pedestrian killed by car on icy road

ASKOV, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota troopers say a pedestrian who was struck by a car in Pine County has died. A KARE-TV reportsays the accident happened Sunday about 8:30 p.m...

news / region Mon, Dec 17, 2012 - 12:35pm

Closures lifted on major roads, but motorists should still expect difficult travel

BEMIDJI - Road closures around the Bemidji area were lifted Saturday afternoon after crews treated highways with de-icing materials. The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office released updated information to caution motorists...

news / local Sat, Dec 15, 2012 - 3:00pm

A Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Greenland in 2011. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

AP-GfK Poll: Science doubters say world is warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is...

news Fri, Dec 14, 2012 - 9:13am

Blane Klemek, area wildlife supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, points to the entrance of an abandoned beaver lodge in a pond northeast of Detroit Lakes. The frozen shores of the pond have receded because of the drought. Klemek said it’s likely the beavers migrated to a pond or lake that has more water. Tom Robertson | MPR Photo

Winter yields evidence drought is affecting wildlife

By Tom Robertson, MPR News 91.3 FM DETROIT LAKES – The heavy snow that fell on parts of central Minnesota over the weekend may be too late to help relieve...

news / region Tue, Dec 11, 2012 - 11:27pm

Dayton authorizes shelter for stranded motorists

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has issued a retroactive executive order authorizing the use of a National Guard Armory in Olivia as shelter after some stranded motorists...

news / region Tue, Dec 11, 2012 - 3:10pm

Abundant snow won't relieve drought conditions

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — With all the snow in parts of Minnesota, it seems surreal to think more than 80 percent of the state is in a severe or...

outdoors / environment Tue, Dec 11, 2012 - 9:20am

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