Park Rapids

Separate from the Highway 71 corridor study, this visioning effort will identify longer-term goals and other potential improvements, like pedestrian crossing needs.

Dozens of Northern Minnesota student-athletes from nine area schools, including Grand Rapids and Bemidji, will compete at the 2025 state swimming and diving meet this week.

Events this week include trunk or treats in Hibbing, Turtle River and Grand Rapids; Hwy. 197 open house in Bemidji and a health fair in Park Rapids.

The health event, sponsored by Youth Emergency Shelter & Supports and Essentia Health, will be at the Armory Arts Center in Park Rapids on Oct. 21, 2025.

Charles Justus, 43, is accused of entering a trailer and stabbing a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, Danielle Westphal, 51. Both face numerous felonies.

Warming water may have an outsized impact on the legendary lake, which has been protected for decades.

Events this week include a monarch butterfly festival in Bemidji and the Range Walk to End Alzheimer's in Chisholm.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is in the early stages of planning the project, with construction expected to begin in 2030. The public can offer feedback at the event.

Conservation officers from Park Rapids, Remer and International Falls received lifesaving awards for their roles in search and rescue missions in Northern Minnesota.

The Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force is implementing automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, in its jurisdictional boundaries. Civil liberties groups join those concerned with the lack of public knowledge and oversight into how this data is used.