Brainerd News

Steve Kohls/Brainerd Dispatch Tanya Kirk talks with friends across the fence at Evergreen Cemetery Monday after Memorial Day ceremonies in Brainerd.

Keith C. Sather, born to Alfred and Elsie Sather on 8/5/1952 in Brainerd, MN passed away on May 14,2012 at Harborview Hospital due to complications of a massive stroke.

Take a snapshot of Marcia Stanton's life and show it to her 10 years ago and she wouldn't believe it.

And they arrived at the perfect time, she said. It was Oct. 15 of last year, on the six-month anniversary of her son's death in Afghanistan -- to the day -- and Kennedy felt the need to spend it with others on the same "healing journey." Six months after his death, Valerie Kennedy drove from her Inver Grove Heights home to a weekend retreat in ... (more)

In order to better serve customers, the Crow Wing County Financial Assistance Unit of Community Services added two additional phone lines.

The east-west warm front that spent Saturday in Iowa will lift slowly into Minnesota overnight.

BRAINERD, Minn. - Brainerd officials are looking at an unconventional place for a future energy source: the sewers.

May 26, 2012 -- The 10th annual Scandinavian Festival in Roseau, Minn., will be June 15-16 with music, food and entertainment including a Maypole raising and a Swedish smorgasbord.

Many restaurants and retailers like a soft opening with little fanfare to give staff time to get used to real work conditions.

Dan Witucki achieved Assistive Technology Professional Certification on May 22 from the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Society of North America.

The Crow Wing County Foster Parent Association marked May as National Foster Care Month when it conducted its annual banquet on May 14 at Northland Arboretum in Brainerd.

Forestview Middle School eighth-grader Matthew Majerle is heading to Washington, D.C., to compete Wednesday-Friday in the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Haapajoki said when he arrived home the power was out and the big appliances were not working even after power was restored.

Brainerd and Nisswa firefighters fought back-to-back structure fires - with one home fully engulfed upon arrival - in the off and on pouring rain and thunderstorms Wednesday.

BRAINERD, Minn. - NASCAR is coming to Brainerd International Raceway this weekend, highlighting three full days of racing action during the 4th Annual Street Car Showdown.

To see the cost of not having a detox facility in Brainerd, one only needs to spend a Saturday night in the emergency room.

The latest jobless rates were released this week by the state Department of Employment and Economic Development.

An 85-year-old Remer man was injured after he fell asleep and the sports utility vehicle he was in ran off the road, went into the ditch and rolled over Tuesday along Highway 210 near Maple Shores Road, just east of Crosby, reported the Minnesota State Patrol.

If the Minnesota Department of Education's new format to monitor school performance was listed like a report card on a typical school grade, Lowell Elementary School would have earned an A+ according to the latest results.

Rachel Reabe Nystrom and Phil Trusty, Crow Wing County commissioners, will interview applicants and make a recommendation to the full board.