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The Northwest Minnesota Foundation has grants for eligible applicants with proposals that improve community relationships with newcomers, like immigrants and refugees.

Sharon Ball, Wayne Hiebert, Pete Kalar and Andrew Donald "Jesus Dubs" Piekarski are running for International Falls mayor.

More than 200 days into the 2023-24 school year, school districts and local bargaining units meet at the mediator's table to finalize contracts for teachers and support staff.

The Environmental Quality Board reviewed the petition and designated the Hermantown City Council as the responsible entity. It must either reject the petition or conduct further environmental review for the proposed data center.

Sen. Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic champions the historic session of the Minnesota Legislature, with investments in local government, housing, child care and more.

Jennifer McDonald, Jim Podgornik, Tammy Sundbom and Cindy Lee Olson are running for I.S.D. 704, Proctor, School Board.

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Current and former state legislators, city councilors and business and other community leaders signed the Civic Pledge for a Stronger Minnesota in Grand Rapids.

Minnesota's warm, dry winter has led to an early spring wildfire season across the state. Experts explain more and share safety and prevention tips.

Paleontologists from the Science Museum of Minnesota visited with Bemidji State Beaver hockey fans, lobbying for the giant beaver's induction as a state fossil.

The island was never logged, and the forest is a rare surviving example of an undisturbed old-growth forest of maple and basswood with a rich variety of flowering plants.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz traveled to Bemidji on June 24, 2025, to assess damage from a hurricane-strength windstorm that wrought a path of destruction three days earlier.

The event will be 2 p.m. Monday, May 1, with May 4 as an alternate date in the case of bad weather. The mock crash will be on Birchwood Avenue West in Walker, Minnesota.

The Department of Natural Resources will place trail cameras on public and private lands to gather deer density data throughout northeastern Minnesota.

This heavy rainfall may fall on top of already saturated soils from other recent heavy rainfall and lead to excessive runoff.

A 20-year-old Ohio man is accused of scamming thousands of dollars out of elderly victims in Grand Rapids and Hibbing.

The 61-year-old man reportedly had dementia and, thanks to thermal imaging, was located near where he was last seen. He was found in hypothermic conditions.

The Salvation Army is looking to fill two key positions in Itasca and Carlton counties ahead of the holiday season. Volunteer bell ringers are also needed.

Prescribed burning will begin in the eastern portion of the forest in the Gunflint and Tofte ranger districts, with burns in the western part slated when weather conditions allow.

The Eagle Mountain trail in the Superior National Forest will be closed to the public for two weeks in January 2026 for the safety of the dogs and Forest Service personnel.