Category Archives: Lakes Area Local News

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Mahnomen County has given a higher percent of COVID-19 vaccine to its residents than any other county in the state, but more people in Becker county have received the vaccine. A...

FRAZEE (KDLM) - A Lakes Area resident is warning others to be on the lookout for letters that appear to be tax documents, but actually aren't. One woman in Frazee says she and others have received a l...

(MNN) - State officials are reminding Minnesotans who got a COVID extension for renewing their driver's license that they need to do it by March 31st. They're encouraging people not to procrastinate b...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Becker County's business relief grants are now available, but many home based businesses are wondering if they qualify. Mike Brethorst, County Administrator says, "If you have f...

(KNSI) - A bill introduced in Congress would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. A wage hike, economist Ray Perryman says, if approved, would be the first such increase s...

(KNSI) - Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka and House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt issued a response to Governor Tim Walz's $52.4 billion budget proposal put forward Tuesday. The plan calls f...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - Health care workers across the country are seeing weight gain become an issue in a majority of their patients, a product of the coronavirus pandemic. Karensa Tischer, a Register...

FERGUS FALLS (KDLM) - A man who killed two people in Frazee in 2018 has been sentenced to 51 years in prison. William Hillman, was given two consecutive sentences of 306 months, Tuesday, January 26. H...

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) - MAHUBE-OTWA is encouraging Lakes Area residents within its 5 county service area to participate in an Annual Point in Time Homeless Count. The nonprofit is asking residents who ...

(KDLM) - Rapala USA is recalling around 128,000 of the company's battery-operated fillet knives after some of them caught fire. Some of the rechargeable batteries have been known to overheat when plug...