Laporte News

Compensation in private industry increased just 0.5 percent in the Twin Cities metro area for the year ended March 2009, the lowest rate of gain among 14 metro areas in a Bureau of Labor Statistics study released Tuesday.

Violent incidents over the past week in Hubbard County resulted in three people sent to area hospitals.

Two men were charged Tuesday in Hubbard County District Court in a relation to Sunday night assaults in Laporte.

Two 18-year-old men were arrested for allegedly stabbing a teenage boy and assaulting another individual Saturday night in Hubbard County.

As Sheree Gitchel pulled up to Laporte School one afternoon, she overheard a couple of young teenage girls discuss ways they can exchange prescription drugs to get high.

A 10-year-old Laporte boy injured last week in a playground accident returned to classes Tuesday after being airlifted to a Minneapolis hospital.

Fare for All, a cooperative food-purchasing program with a distribution base in Akeley, is gaining momentum on a near daily basis.

Three teens have been fined $1,600 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to killing 109 American coots.

The Hubbard County Food Shelf is once again experiencing banner business, economic doldrums fueling an increase in usage.

The Nevis School Board reviewed possible effects of the federal stimulus package this week via a Web cast from Lee Warne of the Rural Minnesota Education Association.

A group of interested citizens has come together to battle youth drug and alcohol use and wants to begin having more community involvement.

Adam K. LaPorte's friends remembered the Superior resident this morning as a helpful, friendly man passionate about fishing and the outdoors.

Bemidji-area stakeholders will be asked to comment Thursday on the state Department of Transportationa s 20-year Transportation Plan.

Fire destroyed an Akeley house Wednesday night, the eight occupants running from the home barefoot and without coats as the blaze spread quickly.

Three schools in the region were shipped possibly tainted peanut products linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak as part of the federal school meal program, U.S Department of Agriculture officials announced ...

" With a deepening recession, don't expect the Minnesota Legislature to suddenly find money to protect any one budget area, local legislators told a group of teachers Saturday morning.

Laporte students Randa Ruby, Tim Daggett and Sandy Pierce represented the school Oct.

A lot of questions but little support came Tuesday for a proposal to mandate automatic fire sprinklers in new homes constructed after Jan.

An Akeley woman escaped injury Monday when her vehicle slid across County Road 36, struck a culvert and overturned in the Kabekona River.

The line to mail Christmas packages at the tiny Lake George post office is nonexistent.