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Man charged with shooting stranger at Becker County trailer park
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — A 31-year-old Frazee man faces charges for allegedly shooting a stranger during a fight at a trailer park.Documents say he was at the Acorn Lake Trailer Park on Saturday morning with a woman he had met at the Becker County Fair. The two of them were sitting in his car and having a cigarette when they were approached by another man. The woman then told him to roll up his window. In an interview with officers after the shooting, the woman said that the two men did not know each other.The Frazee man later told police that...
Jennifer Carnahan, former Minn. GOP chair, running for Nisswa mayor
NISSWA, Minn. — A big name in Minnesota politics has thrown her hat into a small tourist town's mayoral race.Jennifer Carnahan, the former chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, is running for mayor of Nisswa in central Minnesota. Carnahan has owned the boutique Primrose Park in town for a decade and grew up in the Brainerd Lakes Area."Nisswa is a special place and I'm running for mayor to keep the city vibrant, strong and healthy for generations to come," Carnahan wrote on her campaign website.Carnahan's history in state politicsCarnahan may be the most well-known candidate ever to seek office in...
FEMA, state of MN open disaster recovery center in Virginia
VIRGINIA — A disaster recovery center opened Friday, Aug. 16, in Virginia to help residents with recovery after the severe storms and flooding earlier this summer. Specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the state of Minnesota and the U.S. Small Business Administration will be at the center to help survivors.
Minnesota Loses A Staggering Amount Of Daylight In August
It seems to happen so fast every year, and I'm always caught off guard. The days get short, and it almost feels like someone hit a switch. Just a couple of weeks ago it was still bright at 9 pm. Then, it hit me. Last night I looked at my wife at about 8:40 pm and said, "Holy, it's already pitch black out."
Air quality alert issued for northwest Minnesota due to wildfire smoke
MOORHEAD, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air quality alert for northwest Minnesota. The alert takes effect 3:00 p.m. on Friday, August 16 and runs until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 18. The affected area includes East Grand Forks and Moorhead. Heavy ground-level...
Minnesota’s D.A.R.E. Program To Pivot From Drugs to Cyberbullying
Remember the D.A.R.E. program in school? We were never ever ever ever ever ever gonna do drugs, because the lion in a t-shirt (and NO PANTS) told us not to and to also snitch on our parents if we caught them doing drugs, whether it was recreational drugs or prescription drugs. We didn't know the difference, we just saw "drugs" and snitched.
Where Is Minnesota Looking At Adding A New Freeway?
I've been waiting years for some road relief, and while it's not coming to the St. Cloud area, at least in terms of a new freeway, the state of Minnesota is looking at converting a highway in the North Metro into the newest freeway. The move would eliminate stoplights and add over or underpasses for those intersections.
StormTeam 3: Scattered showers today and tomorrow, sun returns Sunday
Another round of scattered showers are possible for both Friday and Saturday afternoon and evenings as energy from a mature low pressure system to our north continues to feed shower chances. If you have any outdoor plans today or tomorrow, please stay weather aware as those plans could get a...
Walz viewed more favorably than Vance: Survey
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who was recently selected as Vice President Harris’s running mate, is seen more favorably than former President Trump’s vice presidential selection, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), according to a poll released Friday. The ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey found 39 percent of respondents said they either have a “strongly” or “somewhat” positive…
Utah women supporting Kamala Harris share their ‘why’
Gwen Walz, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, headlined a Zoom call Thursday evening hosted by a group of Utah women drumming up support for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. On the call, Gwen Walz talked about her time as a teacher. She said that’s how she met her husband, when they […]
GOP congressional candidate Joe Teirab’s anti-abortion views run deep
Republican U.S. House candidate Joe Teirab’s anti-abortion views run so deep that he attributes his very existence to anti-abortion advocates. Teirab’s mother almost got an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with him. She went to New Life Family Services — a Minnesota crisis pregnancy center — and “by the grace of God” […]
Sun Country flight attendants vote to authorize strike
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — The union representing flight attendants for Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines says those members have voted to authorize a strike. In a news release sent out Thursday, union leaders said the nearly 600 flight attendants who staff Sun Country flights have not had a pay adjustment since 2016, and are far behind colleagues at similar carriers when it comes to compensation. The union maintains that Sun Country Airlines exceeded $1 billion in revenue for the first time last year, and reported greater revenue than ever before in the first quarter of 2024.
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