Mille Lacs County News

Enough to where the National Weather Service in Duluth has placed the counties of Morrison, Crow Wing and Aitkin in a flood warning.

A man identifying himself as a debt collector for the Native Mob allegedly threatened to rape a woman at gunpoint if her boyfriend didn't pay up, according to the Mille Lacs County Attorney's Office.

The following people were arrested between 7 a.m. Monday, May 21, and 7 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office: Brett Brandstrom, 41,A of Oakdale, was transported from the Mille Lacs County Jail for giving a false name to police and weapons possession charges.A Pang Vang, 70, of Brooklyn Park, was arrested on ... (more)

A state grant will cover more than half the cost of a highway interchange improvement that will improve access to Sauk Rapids industrial parks, the community's high school and newer housing developments.

Two drivers were injured in a two-vehicle broadside collision reported at 9:24 a.m. Wednesday on Highway 18, Water Way Road, north of Isle in Mille Lacs County, reported the Minnesota State Patrol.

Heidi Nelson, Wayzata's first new city manager in nearly three decades, has arrived in the midst of some significant projects in the community.

ST. PAUL - Stearns County will lose one of its nine judges when a replacement is named for the retiring Skipper Pearson.

State Patrol honors local trooper ST. PAUL - Minnesota State Patrol Sgt. Kevin Vacura's actions during two events in Red Wing have earned him the State Patrol Life Saving Award.

Two patrolmen and a passerby who helped save a woman from a sinking car were among those to win Life Saving Awards on Monday.