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Your best source for Brainerd Lakes Area Minnesota news, sports and weather.
Brainerd, MN
Joined December 2008
Smoke from Canadian wildfires to once again descend on Brainerd and surrounding areas
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An air quality alert is in effect through Friday and is expected to reach unhealthy levels for everyone in northern and central Minnesota.
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Brainerd figure skaters to compete in national showcase
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Amelia Bistodeau, Maddie Cook, Isla Johnson, Chloe Gonska and Maren Wallin will perform at U.S. Figure Skating's national showcase July 28-Aug. 2 in Rochester, Michigan.
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Minnesota launches new tip program for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives cases
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The Gaagige-Mikwendaagoziwag Reward Fund Tip program will offer up to $10,000 for tips that advance cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
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Midweek Motivator: Fighting hunger one lunch at a time in the Brainerd lakes area
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What makes Operation Sandwich truly special is not just its impact on hunger, but the way it brings people together.
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Baxter Police identifies motorcyclist severely injured in crash
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The Baxter Police Department responded to the crash at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, July 17, after his motorcycle was struck at College Road and Berrywood Drive.
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Gabriel’s Home to host barbecue dinner fundraiser
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The dinner will be Saturday, July 26.
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You’re not imagining it: There has been a bumper crop of special elections in Minnesota Legislature
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Minnesota is on track to tie the record number of special elections for the Legislature held in a single calendar year — and potentially exceed it.
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Brainerd man injured in Baxter motorcycle crash
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The Baxter Police Department responded to the crash at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, July 17, after his motorcycle was struck at College Road and Berrywood Drive.
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He was a retired prizefighter. But he couldn’t dodge bullets fired in the night
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Patsy Magner’s hellraising career as a boxer and saloon owner in South Dakota and Iowa came to a violent end in December 1934.
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Battle Lake woman made history by winning Fargo's Soap Box Derby in 1972
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Marci Madsen Fuller won the event the first year girls were even allowed to enter the race.
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Listen: Brainerd figure skaters to compete in national showcase
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Music, pie, ribs still on tap after Street Fest cancellation
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The annual rib fest, pie eating contest and live music will still go on after the Brainerd Jaycees announced the cancellation of Street Fest last week.
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Tornado cut a path of destruction 25 years ago in Granite Falls, Minnesota
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The July 25, 2000, tornado took one life while damaging 340 homes and several businesses on a 500-foot-wide, two-mile-long path in Granite Falls. Property damage was estimated at $20 million.
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Crow Wing County among the best in the state for recycling
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County had the fourth highest recycling rate of all Minnesota counties in 2023.
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Essentia Health resumes services at Deerwood, Emily and Hackensack clinics, as well as Staples urgent care
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MNA withdrew its strike notice for advanced practice providers.
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What is the identity of the 2025 Vikings? That will be revealed soon enough
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As the Vikings open training camp at TCO Performance Center, this particular group of players understands the task at hand
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Another interim administrator to join Nisswa on July 28
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Keith Hiller will fill role as city council searches for full-time administrator.
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