Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Quality Bait & Tackle in Detroit Lakes has new owners. The store, now known as Witt's Quality Bait & Tackle was purchased by Mike Witt and family earlier this month; the...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - A Farmers to Families Food Box distribution will take place in Detroit Lakes, today. Nearly 900 cars came to the Farmers to Families Food Box distribution in Detroit Lakes in Fe...

WHITE EARTH (KDLM) - The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the White Earth Reservation Business Committee more than $2,300,000 through the Native American Housing Block Grant program...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - The Becker County Food Pantry, Detroit Lakes Lions and Detroit Lakes Dairy Queen are partnering for a drive-thru food drive, Saturday. Each cash donation will be matched by the ...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - With most of the snow now gone in the Lakes Area, Detroit Lakes Fire Chief, Ryan Swanson is warning residents about the dangers of controlled burning. More than 600 wildfires in...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Ticket for the 2021 Bash on The Beach are now on-sale. The concert series, a part of the Detroit Lakes Water Carnival was cancelled last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic will...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A state audit says the agency that issues driver's licenses in Minnesota has struggled to schedule road tests within the 14 days of an applicant's request as required by state law. T...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - The Becker County Transfer station is still adjusting a year after state covid guidelines were first implemented in the state of Minnesota. Steve Skoog with Becker County Enviro...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) - Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and state health commissioner Jan Malcolm are in quarantine for the next week after close contact with a staff member who tested positiv...

(KNSI) - One person is dead after a head-on crash on Interstate 94 Wednesday morning. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the crash happened about 3:00 on eastbound 94 near milepost 123, about tw...