Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News

Flag day is just around the corner and on May 11th the state will unveil the new state flag. The new flag was designed by Andrew Prekker, from Luverne MN. Prekker studied MN history and culture and fa...

It is back to jail for the inmates in the Otter Tail County Detention Facility. The facility was returned to Class III status. It has been over a month since the Department of Corrections placed the j...

The stepmother of Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell told a Becker County Emergency Dispatcher that she had armed herself with a small steak knife after someone broke into her Detroit Lakes home ...

A $3.1 million winning ticket was sold at Cub Foods in Coon Rapids for the April 24 drawing. The cash option is worth an estimated $1.43 million. America jackpot on a ticket he purchased at Cub Foods ...

The Red River Valley invites the community to participate in a remembrance service, offering an opportunity to honor and remember your loved ones. Participants will have the chance to personally etch ...

MN State Patrol was called to another semi-truck crash yesterday afternoon around 3:40pm. According to officials, the semi, travelling westbound of I-94 when it went into the north ditch, up an embank...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Lawmakers have much unfinished business on their plates as they return to the Minnesota Capitol from Passover break. Democrats want to pass a supplemental budget that would spend par...

Come to Bucks Mill Brewing in downtown Detroit Lakes (824 Washington Ave.) from 5-8 p.m. this evening and hoist a pint or two in support of Laker Prep Preschool and Earl Childhood Center, the area's l...

MN State Patrol responded to an accident caused by a Freightliner Semi truck on Interstate Sinto the center median. Both occupants of the truck suffered nonlife threatening injuries. Perry Caston, 46-...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The Grand Forks Police Department is holding property for several individuals and is urging the rightful owners to claim it before May 24. If unclaimed by 4:30 p.m. on that date, t...