Roseau County News

Did "little alien men" invade a small farm yard in Northern Minnesota? Public domain EDITOR'S NOTE: Halloween is upon on, so I'm digging into my archives from my 20-plus years as a journalist to find true stories I have reported on which are befitting of the season.

The firing of former Roseau County, Minnesota, sheriff deputy Chad Maurstad has been upheld.

The recurring story about the decline of the moose population in northeastern Minnesota suggests that climate change is the culprit.

A Roseau County woman, whose disappearance sparked a crime alert, has been found.

Authorities in far northern Minnesota issued a crime alert today in hopes of locating a 39-year-old woman who is missing.

A new face has taken over one of the county's oldest offices. Rick Kvien was appointed county recorder after Avis Lewison announced her retirement earlier this year.

The Roseau County Sheriff's Office is asking people who live between Roseau, Minnesota, and Roosevelt to be on the lookout for some missing firearms that may have been placed in a mailbox.

A longtime Roseau County commissioner is facing criminal charges for failing to file state income taxes.

A longtime Roseau County commissioner is facing criminal charges for failing to file state income taxes.

AUSTIN -- Anne Belle List, age 102 of Austin, died Friday, July 24, 2009, at Austin Medical Center.

A Minnesota woman has sued the Catholic Diocese of Crookston, in Northern Minnesota, claiming that a priest sexually abused her when she was 15.

Loggers, hard hit by today's recession, retain the hardy spirit exemplified by the Paul Bunyon legend.

Minnesota's voter registration system has long been considered a model for the nation, so much so that Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is often asked to speak to congressional committees and elections groups in other states seeking the keys to success.

By MinnPost Staff Up to a third of the farm fields in Kittson and Roseau counties in the far northwest corner of Minnesota could end up spending the summer black , as lingering cool, wet weather stymies seeding plans knocked back by the extensive flooding earlier this spring, writes Stephen J. Lee in the Grand Forks Herald .

Police have a suspect in four cases of apparent arson in Greenbush, Minn., including fires in two churches, in the past month or so.

Hubbard County Attorney Don Dearstyne is putting the brakes on a suggestion for deputies to issue administrative citations for speeding in lieu of a formal traffic ticket.

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

A Roseau County commissioner is accused of filing false state tax returns for five tax years.