Brainerd News

Two Brainerd residents were injured when the motorcycle they were on crashed after a Ford van turned in front of them at 2:03 p.m. Friday on Highway 371 in Fort Ripley, reported the Minnesota State Patrol.

Roxi, a 12-year-old painted mare who was with foal, was shot last week while in a pasture along Crow Wing County Road 9 in rural Brainerd.

For those interested in donating blood can do so at the following locations: Aitkin County: from noon to 6 p.m. July 8-9, Westside Church, 810 Second Street, Aitkin; Crow Wing County: from 1-7 p.m. July 1-2, First Lutheran Church, 424 South Eighth Street, Brainerd; from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 1, St. Joseph's Medical Center, 523 North Third Street, ... (more)

Teens and tweens are invited to join a free beginning watercolor class by professional artist Verna Miller from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, June 19. Miller will demonstrate basic watercolor techniques and the class will have hands-on practice.

A man accused of sexually abusing young boys over the past several decades has been sentenced in Crow Wing County to more than six years in prison.

Options to rezone a portion of 13th Street from residential to commercial arrived at the Brainerd City Council table after three motions failed to get a majority vote at the city's planning commission.

A walking tour is planned for the Safe Routes to School to allow neighborhood residents to provide input and ask questions.

A river search was prompted Friday night after a grandfather and his grandson were late returning home from a boating trip.

The first-runner up, Savannah Cole, also has local ties. Cole is Miss City of Lakes and a former Miss Baxter Outstanding Teen.

Home Stretch is a first-time homebuyer workshop that takes participants through the entire home buying process.

Brainerd business owner Ronald W. Beattie Jr. has been sentenced on multiple counts for the felony offense of tax evasion.

Crow Wing County Community Services Health Division currently provides immunizations to people who are uninsured or underinsured.

It was 1974. Friends knew Hins was looking to buy a drug store. The pharmacist from Huron, S.D. was looking for an opportunity.

A painter puts final coats on The Boulder Tap House in Baxter. The new restaurant reports a grand opening on June 24. Work on the building was moving to the final stages earlier this week with painting on the exterior and crews busy inside.

On their fifth round of in vitro fertilization, the couple started looking into adoption and surrogates.

You've got your occasional "no-brainer" meetings. And then, you've got meetings like Baxter's Tuesday council meeting.

Brainerd resident Terry Sluss is heading to Colorado to help with the American Red Cross disaster relief operation for the ongoing wildfires, including the Black Forest wildfire.

Art Becker represents all that is good about the rank and file of Sertoma members who quietly go about the business of serving mankind, the Brainerd Area Sertoma Club reported as it named Becker Sertoman of the Year.

Brainerd firefighters and other emergency personnel worked on extricating two victims out of a sports utility vehicle Friday after it was involved in a head-on collision along Highway 18, just east of Brainerd.

When an 11-year-old and 12-year-old found just such a snake in the flower bed of their Buffalo Hills backyard it was surprising, interesting and a little scary all at the same time.