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The story of the Batcher Block Opera House in Staples, Minn. is part of Lakes Country Treasures, a series which takes readers down the back roads of Minnesota and to some of the unique must-see gems ...

As we all prepare for the start of the 2025-26 school year, I would like to welcome our incoming kindergartners and their ...

Debates on metal detectors and other security measures at the Capitol renew after the shootings of Minnesota lawmakers ...

After her husband's death in 2016, Kim Voigt turned to a nonprofit community based grief center in St. Cloud to help her ...

Warner, of Thunder Bay, is the author of a popular book titled "Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck." As ...

Polly the parrot went missing Sunday, Aug. 17, from his home in north Brainerd, and owner Amilia Renee is offering a $200 ...

Minnesotans deserve policies that respect their lived reality, not the personal preferences of a small group of lawmakers.

The project would repair street surfaces and provide municipal sewer and water to all neighborhoods. It is one of a few of those neighborhoods in the city still on wells and septic systems ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1925.

The $4.2 million Design Road project in Baxter’s commercial area began on the west side of Hwy 371 and ends at Golf Course Drive and the Whiskey Creek treatment area.

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