Nelson News

A number of issues developing at the state Capitol may be worthy of the West St.

"It's hard to believe that I'm here, sometimes," Pastor Bethany Nelson said as she gazed around her office at Bethel Lutheran Church in Lester Prairie recently.

HIBBING, MN ---U.S. Senator Al Franken is asking Northland education leaders how to improve education in schools across the state.

Drug court has worked wonders for the lives it has managed to turn around. But one program that falls under drug court will run out of funding in March, with no new grants in sight.

Some Minnesota programs would save billions of dollars if used nationally, the AARP report said.