Grand Marais News

Earlier this year the buzz in the US Forest Service was the retirement of Jim Sanders , long-time Superintendent of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota.

In January, 2012, the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council awarded grants totaling $31,732 in the McKnight/ARAC Individual Artist Career Development Grants Program.

In response to the dramatic rise in local courthouse violence across the nation-including a shooting in December at the Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais during which several people were wounded-U.S. Sen.

One of which is allowing them to carry guns while at work. A driving force behind this new bill is Cook County attorney, Tim Scannell.

Less than two months after a Minnesota prosecutor was shot by a defendant in a Grand Marais courthouse, a legislative committee advanced two bills designed to beef up security for county attorneys, including one that would let prosecutors carry guns.

Minnesota Monthly's Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl , stops by today to chat about great towns for a Saturday road trip when it's cold : Lake City, MN, and a restaurant called Nosh : High up on the hills on the west side of Lake Pepin at that widening of the St.

A medical examiner said the common infection led to the rare condition that killed Cook County Courthouse gunman Daniel Schlienz, according to his sister.

Call me an optimist. I just booked a mid-February stay in Grand Marais, Minn., and I plan to cross-country ski along the Gunflint Trail while I'm there.

David Murphy, a bailiff with the Carver County's Sheriff's Office, displays a metal detector wand that is used periodically outside county courtrooms.

Angela Edmondson thought it odd there was no screening at the Brookdale District Court in Brooklyn Center.

Suzzy Roche, one of the three singing Roche Sisters who have delighted us with their folksy, quirky style since the mid-1970s, is the author of a novel, "Wayward Saints," just out from Hyperion.