Isle News

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency doesn't consider water from firefighting efforts at the Verso paper mill to be an environmental danger.

Enough to where the National Weather Service in Duluth has placed the counties of Morrison, Crow Wing and Aitkin in a flood warning.

Two drivers were injured in a two-vehicle broadside collision reported at 9:24 a.m. Wednesday on Highway 18, Water Way Road, north of Isle in Mille Lacs County, reported the Minnesota State Patrol.

Motorists traveling on Highway 27 from Highway 47 south of Isle to Highway 65 in Woodland will encounter a road closure and detour beginning Monday, May 14.

Minnesota State Patrol says 25 year old Lisa Jackson of Isle Minnesota received non life threatening injuries after she lost control of her vehicle and ran off the road.