Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Another excruciating heat wave has hit the Lakes Area with temperatures that could hit the triple digits. Health experts are warning residents that the sustained heat can be dan...

PERHAM (KDLM) - Activists are putting Perham's Turtle Races into question. Snake Discovery, an educational reptile program that hosts events across the Midwest is calling for an end to the 40 year tur...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Beginning today, (Monday, July 19) the Minnesota Department of Transportation will begin a district wide culvert improvement project throughout much of the Lakes Area. The work ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- "Only you can prevent forest fires" is among the more iconic public awareness campaigns. In Minnesota, new funding aims to make boat owners embrace a different civic duty: combating aqu...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (KVRR) - Activists opposed to the Line 3 Pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking a judge to issue a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes, and the l...

WHITE EARTH (KDLM) - The White Earth Reservation Business Committee passed a Resolution, Friday, July 16 authorizing the Coronavirus Recovery Program to provide emergency financial assistance to White...

CLITHERAL (KDLM) - A man is believed to have drowned on East Battle Lake, Saturday. The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a male who had been located unconscious in East Batt...

WHITE EARTH (KDLM) - A 2007 murder in White Earth will be featured on a leading true-crime TV network, Monday. Investigation Discovery will explore the 2007 murder of Chad Swedberg, of Little White Ea...

ST. PAUL (KDLM) - The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has awarded the Becker Soil & Water Conservation District a $5,000 grant. The grant, part of $95,000 awarded to 20 projects across the sta...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Walmart plans to end their reserved shopping hours for Seniors this month. Walmart in Detroit Lakes announced that Tuesday, July 27 would be their final reserved shopping hours ...