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Minnesota school's policy letting transgender kids use bathrooms of their choice opposed by petition
A petition that opposes a proposed transgender student inclusion policy in the New London-Spicer School District was launched this week by a group calling itself NL-S Safe. The group of citize...
Driving dog takes semi truck for a joyride in Minnesota
Friday afternoon began as any other for Joe Springman, 24, of Adrian. He was traveling to Eden Prairie to visit his girlfriend when he stopped at a Kwik Trip for gasoline. “I looked over, a...
South Dakota veto on transgender bathroom law stands; lawmaker compares frequency of transgender youths to a virus
ERRE—The Legislature’s fight over treatment of transgender students ended Thursday when the state House of Representatives failed to override Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s veto. The legislation...
University of North Dakota student runs for City Council seat
A UND student and local business owner has announced his campaign to become a Grand Forks City Council member. Ben Olson, 20, is running for the Ward 1 seat on a pro-business platform under whi...
Native American Hall of Honor accepting nominations for inductees
The Native American Hall of Honor, located in the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck, is seeking nominations in four categories: arts and culture, athletics, leadership an...
Musical 'Star Trek' spoof features 'Klingons Are Misunderstood’ tune
Brothers Grant and Cole Remmen have long had it on their bucket list to write a musical. “We had long talked about writing a musical together,” says Cole, who graduated from Detroit Lakes H...
Deputy gets probation for hitting his K-9 partner
Longtime attorneys Thom Pertler and Kevin Short have handled high-profile cases involving cold-blooded murder, child abuse, sexual assault and other crimes that can only be described as heinous....
Charges filed against alleged meth-dealing snowmobiler
A Beldenville, Wis., man made his initial court appearance last week on drug charges after deputies responded to a report of a man selling methamphetamine from a snowmobile. Pierce County pros...
Dad whose 9-year-old turned him in for growing marijuana at home gets jail, probation
A River Falls, Wis., man whose son turned him in after witnessing a drug deal and realizing pot was abundant in the house was sentenced recently in Pierce County Circuit Court. Nathan V. Magnu...
Eerie video of ice stacking lake phenomenon goes viral
A mesmerizing video of Lake Superior ice stacking up along the shore at Duluth’s Brighton Beach, shot last Saturday by local photographer Dawn LaPointe, has spread like wildfire across the Int...
Hockey team shows exceptional sportsmanship, gets free Minnesota Wild tickets
Who says no good deed goes unpunished? A group of seventh-grade girls hockey players from Detroit Lakes and their four coaches have been given free second-row seats to see the Minnesota Wild pl...
White supremacist Craig Cobb still trying to buy small towns, make them all-white
A man who has been searching for a city to create an all-white enclave recently met the same response from residents in Nebraska and Kansas as he did in North Dakota: Not in this town. Craig Co...
South Dakota bill requires transgender kids to use bathrooms of gender assigned at birth
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Senate on Tuesday followed earlier approval by the House to pass a bill that would require public school students to use the bathroom, shower and locker room tha...
Beer and Yoga: A match made in North Dakota
While Sarah Horak was traveling across the country, she noticed something bars and breweries were doing in other cities that hadn’t been done yet in Grand Forks. So last year, Horak, owner of...
Detroit Lakes hockey team wows the crowd with kindness, good sportsmanship
We’ve all heard the joke about going to a fight and a hockey game breaking out. It’s a sport that for years has been notorious for hot tempers both on and off the ice. But a group of 7th g...
Shine a blue light to support slain police officer's family
The Fargo Police Department is asking residents to display blue lights on their porches at night to show support for the family of slain Officer Jason Moszer. Starting Tuesday, blue light bulbs...
Essentia Health sued over refusal to pay for health care during gender transition
ST. PAUL – A Halstad woman is suing her employer in federal court here after she claimed Essentia Health and its employee insurance program refused to pay for her teenage son’s health care du...
Minnesota man punches 14-foot tiger shark attacking him, then asks for beer
A Minnesota man fought off a 14-foot tiger shark that attacked him while he was paddleboarding in Maui over the weekend. “It was nuts,” said Matt Mason, 48, who escaped unscathed after he p...
PRODUCT REVIEW: Bunny leash fiasco goes exactly as expected
The problem with an uncooperative rabbit is that no matter what goes wrong, it’s adorable. When my boyfriend told me I should come home for lunch one day during a recent visit to Grand Forks,...
Man convicted of 15 DUIs charged with driving lawnmower drunk
WAGNER, S.D. — A man who has been convicted of 15 DUIs was arrested for driving a lawnmower while drunk. Rudolph Ehrisman, 63, of Wagner, was arrested on Nov. 27 in Wagner after a law enfor...