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A vehicle collision on Highway 210 sent four to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries at 7 p.m. Friday, June 23.

 From the City of Detroit Lakes: We just received notice from Burlington Northern that Washington Avenue will be closed until sometime Tuesday afternoon, June 27, 2017, while they finish their repairs to the crossing.

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – The new roundabout at Highway 59 and Becker County Road 22 south of Detroit Lakes has partially opened. Both Highway 59 legs and the east County Road 22 legs opened this morning, June 26, along with the connection between County Road 22 and 130th St.

The decision to send troops overseas requires clear eyes, hard questions and specific answers. The Trump Administration, like its predecessors, has shown an apparent appetite for the use of force overseas. The "mother of all bombs" dropped on Syrian troops, saber-rattling toward North...

Sunday, June 25 The Fladlands Performance: Join gospel and bluegrass duo, The Fladlands, at Faith Lutheran Church (24688 County Highway 6) at 7 p.m. This is a free-will offering event and there will be pie and ice cream following the performance. Tuesday, June 27 Tuesday in the Park:...

There are many wonders in this great land ─ including the Grand Canyon of Arizona (averages 10 miles across and one mile deep) and Mount Denali (McKinley), 20,308 feet high in Alaska ─ but sometimes the most awesome wonders are the simplest.

If you plan to commit a crime in Minnesota, you might want to steer clear of Polk County. The county of 32,000, which hugs the Red River on the North Dakota border, is sparsely populated and largely agricultural, save for East Grand Forks, Crookston and a handful of other small cities...

With the Becker County Planning and Zoning Office supervisor position vacant, county commissioners are considering going in an unexpected direction—filling the position with an attorney that specializes in zoning law. That would free up the overburdened Becker County Attorney's...

Enrollment at Detroit Lakes Public Schools has been on a slow, but steady rise over the past 10 years — which is a good thing, when you consider that the State of Minnesota's education aid funding formula is based primarily on a school district's average daily membership, or ADM. "We've...

Feeling anxious about your health care coverage? You're not alone. Aiming to replace the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. House approved its replacement version, called the American Health Care Act; the U.S. Senate is working on its own secret version; and it's anyone's guess what the...

Jamison Michael Nelson, 40, of Detroit Lakes has been charged in Becker County District Court with six felony counts of possessing pornographic works on a computer. According to court records, on Feb. 11, 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received an automated...