Clearwater County News

After a long streak of boasting one of the nation's lowest rates of children living in poverty, Minnesota has been "slipping" in recent years compared with the rest of the nation, said research director Kara Arzamendia with the Children's Defense Fund.

Authorities have recovered a sailboat that sank in a northern Minnesota lake last month, killing two young brothers.

DNR to lift burning restrictions in 13 Twin Cities metro and central Minnesota counties The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will lift burning restrictions in 13 Minnesota counties beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 27.

A more focused snapshot of unemployment around Minnesota shows that some areas are continually doing better then others.

So, let me get this straight. If I call into the state of Minnesota to clarify hunting regulations I should take the information with a grain of salt because the individual I talked to might be a "potentially unqualified individual." Why is the Department of Natural Resources hiring these types of people? Maybe they should give them some kind of ... (more)