Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News
Hodgepodge: Terry Haus and Alyssa Hagedorn of United Way of Becker County talk Celebration on Sept. 21; Carrie Johnston talks Women's Speakers Series and Splash Awards
Terry Haus and Alyssa Hagedorn of United Way of Becker County talk Celebration Event on Sept. 21. Carrie Johnston of the DL Chamber talks Women's Speakers Series and other upcoming events. &nbs...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

Da Vinci exhibition opens at Becker County Museum
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - The life and history of one of the Europe's most famous renaissance minds, Leonardo Da Vinci, is officially on display at the Becker County Museum as the event hall opene...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023 An attendee walks in front of Da Vinci's Last Supper at the Becker County Museum on Sept. 16, 2023. (Michael Achterling / KDLM)

Largest corn maze in MN opens near Foley
St. Cloud, Minn. (KNSI) - Minnesota's largest corn maze opens Saturday at Stoney Brook Farms near Foley for their annual Harvest Fun Days. The dinosaur-themed 35-acre maze has 11.7 miles of pathways. ...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

New alternative wellness center offers variety of supplemental therapies
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - A new non-traditional wellness and health care provider opened its doors in Perham over the summer. Elements Wellness and Med Spa is located on 1st Avenue in downtown Per...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023 Troy Diggins, owner of Elements Wellness and Medspa, smiles next to the Elements sign at the Perham location. (contributed)

Former Mille Lacs Band police chief sentenced to 28 years for sexually assaulting a child beginning in 2009
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) - A former police chief of the Mille Lacs Band has been sentenced to more than 28 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child beginning around 2009 when she was six or seven and...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

Man killed in Becker County ATV crash Saturday
Detroit Lakes , MN (KDLM) - A man died in a Becker County ATV crash on Saturday. The Becker County Sheriff's Office received a report of a single ATV colliding with a tree on the Rat Lake Trail, west ...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

Fire burns Wright County equestrian center; no animals injured
St. Cloud, Minn. (KNSI) - The state fire marshal is investigating after one person was hurt in a fire at an equestrian center in Wright County. The Wright County Sheriff's Department was called to the...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

Detroit Lakes man sentenced to 15 years for multiple criminal sexual conduct felonies
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - A Detroit Lakes man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for three separate felony criminal sexual conduct charges going back more than a decade. 27-year-old Jeffrey ...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023
Lakes Area Morning News for Sept. 18, 2023
Da Vinci exhibition opens at Becker County Museum Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - The life and history of one of the Europe's most famous renaissance minds, Leonardo Da Vinci, is officiall...
Michael Achterling Sep 18, 2023

Man previously convicted of attempted murder in Moorhead assaults a mail carrier
FARGO (KVRR) - A man who was convicted for attempted murder in Moorhead in 2018 will spend 5.5 years in federal prison for punching a mail carrier in St. Paul the same year. According to the U.S. Just...
Michael Achterling Sep 15, 2023