Cass County

The facility agreement approved by the Cass County Board represents a switch from its current partner Crow Wing County after an 18-year contractual relationship.

The 6-year-old German shepherd has served with Deputy Ryan Huston in the Cass County Sheriff's Office for four years.

A Minnesota Department of Agriculture employee noticed a cluster of ash trees bearing signs of the invasive pest near Remer. State officials enacted an emergency quarantine of eastern Cass County.

Plus charges in a cocaine trafficking investigation in Crow Wing County, an East Gull Lake man faces tax-related felonies, a nationwide test of emergency alerts happens today, and candidates for a judgeship in the Arrowhead head to Gov. Tim Walz for the final decision on appointment.

Plus the death of a longtime former Cass County sheriff, a nationwide alert to cellphones, public open house on Highway 87 reconstruction, candidates recommended to fill vacancy in Minnesota's Sixth Judicial District, and the Bemidji City Council is expected to select a new city manager.

Plus an update on the Grand Rapids ruby slippers case, the growing field of community health workers seeks scholarship applicants, designs being accepted for the new Minnesota state flag and seal, and an open house is scheduled for the Highway 87 reconstruction planned for 2024-25.

Plus the Polk County Sheriff's Office discovers a body near an abandoned vehicle, a case against three Line 3 protesters in Aitkin County is dismissed by a judge, a Cass County K-9 suffers injury during a pursuit, and Mission Township terminates its fire chief because of fiscal and financial irregularities.

As part of the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Act of 2020, the transfer aims to "right a wrong" from the illegal transfer of allotted Leech Lake lands to the USDA in the 1950s.

The DNR provided an AIS sign design and interpretive signage specifications to provide a simple structure to hang free-use cleaning tools, and clear instructions about cleaning boats to prevent the spread of invasive species.