Roseau News

I attended Garrison Keillor's 'Prairie Home Companion' live radio show on the Fourth of July at Avon's Lake Wobegon Park.

A A A As a result of severe spring flooding in parts of the state, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs is offering Flood and Severe Storm Relief Assistance through the month of July to Veterans and their families in the following counties: Becker, Beltrami, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Lac Qui Parle, ...

There hasn't been a fatal ambulance accident in Minnesota since January of 2005, when an ambulance transporting a patient in Roseau slammed into the back of a garbage truck, killing the driver and patient.

Many bikes and tents could be found Monday in Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village in Thief River Falls.

The Red River International Bike Tour will make its way through several local cities next week.

When the time comes for the goats to be tied, the bulls to be ridden and the steers to be wrestled, it doesn't matter if the sun is shining or shrouded by clouds, if the air is warm or frigid, if the turf is dusty or a giant bowl of muck soup.

Chief Terrance Nelson of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation in 2005. Photograph by: Wayne Glowacki/Winnipeg Free Press, A Manitoba native chief who made national headlines two years ago by saying the a oeonly waya to get the attention of Canadians was to a oepick up a guna or a oestand between him and his moneya plans to run for the top job ...

If therea s one thing that always seems to pique someonea s interest, ita s a beautiful bird.

The Roseau River East Diversion Flood Control project has been allocated $4.6 million as part of the Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Three flood-affected Manitoba First Nations will receive more than 200 mops and other cleaning supplies to help mop up homes damaged in the flood.

Alan Johnston of Warroad admitted in Roseau County Court today that he underreported income to the state for the tax years 2002 through 2006.

Nearly 25 displays of Scouting skills and hobby interests will be on display at the annual Voyageur Trails District Boy Scout Exposition, which will be on Sunday, April 26, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Huck Olson Memorial Civic Center in Thief River Falls.

The Roseau County Attorney's Office charged Roseau Country Commissioner Alan Johnston, 61, this week with one felony tax crime.

For 79 more Team Industries employees, Friday will be their last day of work. The newest round of layoffs comes amid an industry downturn that will leave the Park Rapids manufacturer with around 40 employees, about the size of the initial plant the company opened 14 years ago.

Recently, State Auditor Rebecca Otto released the 2007 Analysis of Municipal Liquor Store Operations, which provides comparative data on municipal liquor operations owned and operated by Minnesota cities.

A sign advertising a golf course is almost submerged by the flood water of the Red River just outside the town of Emerson, Man., Wednesday, April 8, 2009.

Thieves are breaking into evacuated homes in Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation in southern Manitoba.

Much like they've paralyzed the redevelopment of Kapyong Barracks, Treaty One First Nations are threatening to tie up the province's massive new wind farm in court unless they're included in the $800-million dollar deal.

Aerial photo of the Red River near Winnipeg on Tuesday. Photograph by: Bruce Owen / Winnipeg Free Press, Several hundred residents of a Manitoba First Nation were headed home Wednesday after getting word that the flood threat to their community had been downgraded - or delayed, at any rate.

This storm will have very little effect on flood prospects for the Red in southern Manitoba since crests of the Red will have passed Emerson before any run-off from the new snow reaches the river.