Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News
DL Cruise Night returns to West Lake Drive on June 14; Women's Edge Speakers Series also kicks-off in City Park Wednesday afternoon
Detroit Lakes , MN (KDLM) - West Lake Drive between Washington Avenue to Rossman Avenue in Detroit Lakes will be closed on Wednesday evening from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. for one of the city's most colorful a...
Jun 13, 2023 Classic cars are displayed along West Lake Drive in Detroit Lakes during DL Cruise Night. (Screenshot / Facebook)
Fans seek refunds after 1-song Ice Cube concert at Northern Lights Casino on June 9
Detroit Lakes , MN (KDLM) - Attendees of a June 9 Ice Cube concert at Northern Lights Casino in Walker, Minn., took to social media over the weekend to express their disappointment with the cancelatio...
Jun 13, 2023 Ice Cube performs one song at Northern Lights Casino on June 9 before the concert is canceled due to sever weather. (Screenshot / Ice Cube / Twitter)
Two new m-pox cases discovered in Minnesota; first new cases since November 2022
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - Two cases of m-pox, formerly known as monkeypox, were confirmed in Minnesota last week by the state's department of health. Both cases were found in two adults living in ...
Jun 13, 2023 NIAID / CC
Detroit Lakes city council to hold hearing for 2023 gutter, approach and sidewalk repair; 80 projects total more than $273,000
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - The Detroit Lakes City Council will be holding a public hearing during their meeting tonight concerning 2023 curb, gutter, concrete approaches and sidewalk repairs. In to...
Jun 13, 2023
Ronald McDonald House Ride in New York Mills raises more than $100,000 in donations, 5 million pop tabs to sell for scrap
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - The 22nd annual Ronald McDonald House RIDE in New York Mills brought in more than $100,000 in cash donations and 5 million aluminum pop can tabs to be sold for scrap all ...
Jun 13, 2023 Motorcycles line up in New York Mills at the start of a 150-mile ride to raise donations for the Ronald McDonald House on June 10, 2023. (Michael Achterling / KDLM News)
Hodgepodge: Rep. Jim Joy discusses some of the different bills passed during the legislative session
Rep. Jim Joy, R-Hawley, discusses some of the different bills passed during the legislative session on June 12.
Jun 12, 2023
86 walleyes caught during annual Lakers Fishing Team Walleye Tournament on Detroit Lake
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - Twenty-two teams of 44 anglers cast their lines into Detroit Lake on Saturday for the 3rd annual Lakers Fishing Team Walleye Tournament. The top prize for the tournament ...
Jun 12, 2023 Tony Boyd shows the largest walleye caught on Detroit Lake during the 3rd Annual Lakers Fishing Team Walleye Tournament on June 10, 2023. (Michael Achterling / KDLM News)
Bags tournament brings 18 teams and dozens of onlookers to City Beach in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - The inaugural Sax on the Beach beanbag tournament, hosted by Go Go Rental on City Beach in Detroit Lakes, saw 18 teams of bag hurlers compete for nearly $2,000 in cash an...
Jun 12, 2023 Ellie Sack, of Detroit Lakes, throws a bag on City Beach in Detroit Lakes during the inaugural Sax on the Beach bags tournament, hosted by GoGo Rental, on June 10, 2023. (Michael Achterling / KDLM News)
Saint Cloud man killed in motorcycle crash on Highway 15 Saturday
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) - A Saint Cloud man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Highway 15 in Saint Cloud on Saturday. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, on June 10 at 2:14 p.m., a Saint Clo...
Jun 10, 2023
Laker girls 4x100m relay team wins state championship; Horner places third in pole vault during final day of State Track and Field
ST. MICHAEL, MINN (KDLM) - The Laker Girls 4x100m relay team continued their record-setting ways through the 2023 Class AA State Track and Field Championship with another record-setting performance on...
Jun 10, 2023 The state champion 4x100m relay team (L-R) Ella Paulson, Rylee Johnson, Jerzie Horner and Abby Larson (Photo: Lisa Conzemius via Twitter)