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Tolkkinen: Anti-Trump forces are fired up in greater Minnesota, ready to be heard

AuthoredKaren Tolkkinen
March 25, 2025

Bemidji

‘Every day is a struggle’: Emotion high as two sentenced in Bemidji teen’s stabbing death

Two accomplices get 15 years in prison, double the recommended sentence, for their roles.
March 25, 2025

Greater Minnesota

‘It’s something you never get over’: Red Lake grieves on 20th anniversary of school shooting

A ceremony on Friday honored the memories of the 10 killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting.
March 22, 2025

Politics

‘Incredibly inequitable’: Schools surrounding Minnesota’s cabin country homes struggle as taxes go to state

A long-ago shift of a portion of seasonal home property taxes away from schools is messing with communities, says Sen. Grant Hauschild, who has introduced legislation to replace a portion of the taxes.
March 21, 2025

Bemidji

Unlicensed northern Minnesota man on probation for second DWI was allegedly drunk in fatal crash

Officials identify the woman who died at the scene.
March 18, 2025

High Schools

Prep Athletes of the Week: St. Paul Harding multisport star helps Knights boys basketball reach state tournament

Also, Hopkins sophomore Erma Walker plays a part in girls basketball state history.
March 18, 2025

News & Politics

Minnesota cuts employment services for people with disabilities

Some in the field fear state’s abrupt steps to rein in costs are hurting those with disabilities and will lead to waitlists.
March 17, 2025
Like thousands of other high school graduates in Minnesota, Chris McIntire went straight to work at a segregated workshop, where he did menial factory work for sub minimum wages. Then in 2017, the state Vocational Rehabilitation program stepped in and found Chris a job for $10/hour at Friendly Buffalo Restaurant in Big Lake, Minn. Here, McIntire whistles to the Bob Dylan song The Times They Are a Changing', while washing dishes with his job coach Jaime Klatt looking on Friday, May 11, 2018, at t

Greater Minnesota

‘Priceless property’: 3M’s historic northern Minnesota resort to become public land

Public trusts paid $5.3 million for the 450 acres near Park Rapids and will turn over the property to the DNR.
March 17, 2025

Bemidji

Tolkkinen: It’s hard to find sympathy for the worst people in Minnesota

But we need to do better for the inmates of prisons and county jails.
AuthoredKaren Tolkkinen
March 15, 2025
Surveillance footage shows an incapacitated Hardel Sherrell collapsing into a wheelchair as a Beltrami County Jail staffer looks on on Sept. 2, 2018. Sherrell died the following day.

Outdoors

Minnesota DNR loosens walleye regulations on Mille Lacs for entire season

The new, two-fish limit is the most generous in years, a sign of resurgence for the lake.
March 13, 2025
A small walleye is pulled in on the Twin Pines Resort boat during an evening excursion on Lake Mille Lacs in 2015.

Bemidji

Family of man who died in Bemidji jail got some justice and wants more

Del Shea Perry is hoping charges filed against a former nurse implicated in her son’s death send a message against medical neglect.
March 11, 2025

Bemidji

Nurse accused of depriving Beltrami County jail inmate of care faces manslaughter, neglect charges

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced the charges Friday against Michelle Skroch, nursing director at the since-shuttered MEnD Correctional Care in the death of 27-year-old Hardel Sherrell.
March 8, 2025
Surveillance footage shows an incapacitated Hardel Sherrell collapsing into a wheelchair as a Beltrami County Jail staffer looks on on Sept. 2, 2018. Sherrell died the following day.
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