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MOORHEAD – Officials are working on the next steps for a 100-mile extension of a hiking trail that would link Moorhead and Park Rapids. Minnesota legislators in 2006 approved the addition to the Heartland Trail, a 49-mile road authorized in 1974 that connects Park Rapids to Cass...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. -- Among the oodles of spectators for Sunday's start of the 31st John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon north of Two Harbors were a small army of amateur photographers. Everywhere one looked, lenses were trained on yawping dogs and mushers swaddled in Stay-Puft gear....

MOORHEAD, Minn. – A sexual assault was reported near the campus of Minnesota State University Moorhead early Saturday morning. The incident occurred at about 3:10 a.m. in the 1400 block of Sixth Avenue South, according to Red River Valley Regional Dispatch logs. That street runs...

HIBBING, Minn. -- An 18-year-old Hibbing man admitted to sexually assaulting a 3-year-old child in his care and distributing video of the incident online, according to criminal charges filed this week in State District Court. A juvenile delinquency petition alleges that Brian Dale...

It didn’t seem like a big deal at first. Joyce Arendt was sitting in her Detroit Lakes area home one day, about seven months ago, when she received a call from a telephone number that she didn’t recognize. “I don’t answer calls if I don’t know who they are,” Arendt...

Signing up for health care coverage isn’t as simple as it used to be when you could walk into the Becker County Human Services lobby and fill out a paper application form. Now, with a few exceptions, applications need to go through the state’s MNsure website. But county workers...

A Detroit Lakes man was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 10 year supervised probation for burglarizing his parent’s house. Sean Patrick Menard, 28, was granted a stay of imposition, which means if he does not violate his probation, the felony conviction will not go on his record. Menard...

The Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) has received funding for a new Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Wetlands easement program. Applications are being accepted Jan. 5-Feb. 13. The purpose of the RIM wetlands program will be to identify and enroll lands that contain drained/altered...

Happenings is free, and submissions are run on a first-come, first-serve basis and as space allows. Happenings entries that include date, time and place, as well as a contact person’s name and telephone number, of an event can be e-mailed to Pippi Mayfield at pmayfield@dlnewspapers.com. Sunday,...