Chisago County News

Let us bury, once and for all, the unsupported assertions that Minnesota's election system is the best in the nation and there is no evidence of ineligible voting.

A Minnesota pollution-control panel has approved the dumping of 13.5 tons of taconite concentrate into a Chisago County lake to battle high levels of weed-producing phosphorus.

Christopher Eng has been selected as the Duluth's Director of Business and Economic Development, the city announced Tuesday.

The North Branch City Council, minus member Joel McPherson, convened as the annual Board of Equalization for a half hour before the regular city council session Monday night.

Minnesota is equipping state and local law enforcement agencies with Data Master DMT units, which are the latest in the arsenal of techie tools to prosecute drunk driving.

A group of 2nd and 3rd grade students from the area of South Chisago County will be putting on a play, "Too Much Noise" at Chisago Lakes Primary May 24 at 5:05 p.m. This story is about a man who goes to a village wise man to find out what he could do about his noisy house, and the solution seemed simple enough, but it gets more complicated as an ... (more)

Dr. Jeske Noordergraaf, chair of the Sunrise Township Board, seeks election to the Minnesota Senate in District 32.

Reporting from Chisago County, north of Minneapolis, the paper's Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff found several residents who, although they describe themselves as "self-sufficient members of the American middle class" and "opponents of government largesse," are "drawing more deeply on that government with each passing year." One says, "I ... (more)

With news breaking yesterday that an officer has reported seeing a Hutchinson state trooper give pot to a Drug Recognition Expert program participant, Minneapolis officials are again disavowing any connection to the fiasco.

Stop by the Chisago County Government Center during regular business hours to see the science fair projects chosen to receive this year's Chisago County Department of Environmental Services Award.

NORTH BRANCH, Minn. - The Chisago County Sheriff's Office reports that a drunken driver who stopped at a Dairy Queen drive-through ended up causing a lot of damage.

Officials at North Dakota State University are mourning the death of a department head and respected agricultural economist.