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Red Lake Chairman Darrell Seki Sr. speaks Friday during the State of the Band at Seven Clans Casino. (Jordan Shearer | Bemidji Pioneer)
The path ahead: Officials outline future plans at Red Lake's State of the Band address
RED LAKE—In a packed room in the Seven Clans Casino at Red Lake Nation, tribal leaders talked about problems facing the band—and...
 News February 22, 2019 - 8:17pm
Dennis Duane Vann
‘Free citizen’ with apparent pig-shaped explosive charged in standoff in Minnesota
A “free citizen” who felt he didn’t need to obey traffic laws threatened police, who tried tearing the back door off his RV with a robot...
 News/crime and courts February 23, 2019 - 10:33am
Clarence "Bud" Woodard
Clarence "Bud" Woodard Clarence "Bud" Woodard, 93, of Bemidji, MN passed away Thursday, February 21, 2019 at Neilson Place, Bemidji surrounded...
 February 23, 2019 - 12:39pm
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Megan Lee Nevitt
Megan Lee Nevitt Nov. 24, 2001 - Feb. 19, 2019 BEMIDJI, Minn. - Megan Lee Nevitt, 17, Bemidji, died Tuesday, Feb. 19. A wake began Friday, Feb. 22, and will continue until the traditional service at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at Onigum (Minn.) Community Center. Melvin Goodman will...
 February 23, 2019 - 12:48pm
Zamboni driver Vance Balstad will soon retire after working BSU hockey games for 45 years. (Jillian Gandsey | Bemidji Pioneer)
‘A fixture of this program’: BSU Zamboni driver Vance Balstad calls it a career after 45 years
Vance Balstad is as much a staple of Bemidji State hockey as anyone who has ever been associated with the program. Since 1974, Balstad, 68, has...
 sports/hockey February 21, 2019 - 7:30am
Roberta Ann Martin
Roberta Ann Martin Dec. 9, 1963 - Feb. 20, 2019 BEMIDJI, Minn. - Roberta Ann Martin, 55, Bemidji, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Sanford Hospital. A wake will begin at 1 p.m. today, Feb. 23, and will continue until the traditional service at 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 25, at the Boys and...
 February 23, 2019 - 12:48pm
U.S. Sen. Tina Smith meets student George White on Friday during a visit to Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School. (Jordan Shearer | Bemidji Pioneer)
Learning in Leech Lake: Sen. Smith, tribal and school officials meet at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig
LEECH LAKE—Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School leaders met Friday with U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., to talk about...
 News February 22, 2019 - 7:22pm
Mark Harris fights back tears as his son John Harris testifies during a public hearing before the North Carolina State Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 20, 2019. Harris testified that he had warned his father, the Republican candidate in North Carolina's ninth Congressional district, in April 2017 about his misgivings over L. McCrae Dowless Jr., a campaign operative. (Travis Long/Pool via The New York Times, Copyright 2019)
In North Carolina, everyone agreed it was election fraud
RALEIGH, N.C. - Since the start of a monthslong investigation into evidence of election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District,...
 News/government and politics February 23, 2019 - 11:07am
A kitchen designed by Karin Bennett clears away all the clutter. Karin Bennett Designs
10 ways to refresh your kitchen if you can't do a full renovation
Who hasn't stared at their kitchen and wished HGTV could sweep in and update it? Short a television show's budget and ability to bring in contractors,...
 lifestyle February 23, 2019 - 9:45am
Ron Leyba, a Red Lake Nation Criminal Investigator (center), speaks during a press event Friday as Michael LaRoque, (right), director of public safety with White Earth Police Department, and John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (left) in Bemidji. Several law enforcement agencies came together in Bemidji to discuss the threat posed by heroin and opioids in Minnesota and violence against American Indian women. (Annalise Braught | Bemidji Pioneer)
Defining the crime problems: New state law enforcement officials learn about area opioid abuse, violence against Indigenous women
BEMIDJI—In his newly released budget proposal, new Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced recommendations to combat some of the state's urgent...
 News February 22, 2019 - 7:21pm
R. Kelly charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse
For decades, it was one of the music industry's most disturbing open secrets: R&B singer R. Kelly was hounded by sexual misconduct allegations,...
 News/crime and courts February 23, 2019 - 8:58am
A Dakota County sheriff’s deputy walks among burned-out vehicles where the house exploded early Tuesday morning, Feb. 5. The cause of the deadly blast remained under investigation. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
Second victim of Twin Cities-area house explosion dies
HAMPTON, Minn. — A rural Dakota County man who was injured when his house exploded on Feb. 5 has died. According to the Bakken Young Funeral...
 News/accidents February 22, 2019 - 9:18pm
Crime report for Feb. 21
Sheriff's Report The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office responded to the following calls Thursday: DWI 1:31 a.m. An 18-year-old man was arrested...
 News/crime and courts February 22, 2019 - 2:28pm
Steven David Bruce Sr.
Steven David Bruce Sr. June 25, 1978 - Feb. 21, 2019 BEMIDJI, Minn. - Steven David Bruce Sr., 40, Onigum, Minn., died Thursday, Feb. 21, in Sanford Hospital. A wake will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, and will continue until the traditional service at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at...
 February 23, 2019 - 12:48pm
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: City must take changes to Animal Ordinance seriously
Over the past few years, a group of concerned citizens worked to revise the city of Bemidji Animal Ordinance. This group noted several problems...
 opinion/letters February 22, 2019 - 7:15am

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