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FARGO - Sanford Health is buying out a dozen of the 50 administrators offered early retirements or reassignments under a restructuring plan estimated to save $10 million a year. At the same time, Sanford is planning to centralize management of system-wide functions, an initiative...

DULUTH -- Two adult bald eagles made an unplanned landing on the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport on Sunday. The two birds had locked talons in mid-air and couldn’t get separated before they crashed to the concrete, said Randy Hanzal, a conservation officer with the...

DULUTH, Minn. - This being a family newspaper, we want to put this sensitively: Biology is taking place in the polar bear exhibit of the Kansas City Zoo. And, perhaps, an addition. “We won’t know until November or December if a cub hits the ground,” said Peter Pruitt, director...

FARGO – A possible merger between Sanford Health and Twin Cities-based Fairview Health Services faces scrutiny from the Minnesota attorney general. Attorney General Lori Swanson said she will hold hearings beginning April 7 to investigate what she characterized as a potential “takeover”...

A routine patrol by three conservation officers (CO) with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources netted three Wisconsin men nearly $3,300 in fines, restitution, and court costs for an overlimit of perch. CO’s Luke Belgard, Mike Fairbanks, and Jayson Hansen were working ice...

By Amy Dalrymple Forum News Service WILLISTON, N.D. – The oil industry used at least 5.4 billion gallons of water in North Dakota in 2012, a record high and at least a 75 percent increase over 2011, according to preliminary figures from the State Water Commission. About 70 percent...