The bank's Blackduck branch will close on May 16 at noon, and the branches in Eveleth, Silver Bay, and downtown Bemidji will close on July 11 at noon. The branches are among hundreds the bank is closing nationwide this year.

Authorities arrested two people Thursday after a high-speed chase ended with a vehicle landing in the Mississippi River near Bemidji. Bemidji Police Chief Mike Mastin said in a news release that the chase began when an officer tried to pull over a vehicle.

A Bemidji man has been accused of soliciting sex from a child in Pennington County, where he met a sheriff's deputy posing as a 15-year-old, court documents say.

A gray wolf peers through ferns in the woods north of Duluth, Minn., in 2017. The wolf had just been released by biologists with the 1854 Treaty Authority after being trapped and examined as part of a research project.

A Bemidji woman was killed late Tuesday after she reportedly stabbed a man and fled in a vehicle which overturned. Traci J. Cloud, 24, was dead at the scene on Highway 89 near Bemidji, said the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office.

Executive Director John Jaschke of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources announces Thursday, Oct.5, 2017, that 94 percent of farmers required to meet a Nov. 1 deadline to install buffers already have done so. Don Davis / Forum News Service file photo ST.

My natural hair is what many call dishwater blonde. That's a euphemisma S-a Sit's brown.

The Minnesota Historical Society has appointed Joe D. Horse Capture as the new director of American Indian Initiatives.

Tribal unity is a lesson from Standing Rock. Thousands of people joined with the Lakota Nation to oppose the Dakota Access .

As Enbridge unrolls it's plans for Line 3 and the beginning of the largest web of tar sands pipelines in the world, tribal leaders and communities are challenging both the long term and expired leases of the corporation, and the need for new lines.

UPDATE: On Tuesday night, the Beltrami County Sheriff's' Office was called to the 5600 block of Alps Court NW in Eckles Township in Beltrami County after getting a call of a man being assaulted with a knife in a domestic situation. Police say 25-year-old Raymond E. Oliver of Red Lake, MN fled the scene of the assault to a neighbor's house who called 911.

Just after 10 p.m. in Beltrami County in northern Minnesota, a 24-year-old woman who was not wearing a seat belt was thrown to her death when she crashed on Hwy. 89 in Eckles Township.

It's been a long winter. April SOUNDS good but we still have mounds of snow on the ground and lakes frozen solid.

On Tuesday, the board voted three to two to build the home in Preston and unanimously approved a resolution supporting the town as the location of southeast Minnesota's first veterans home. Spring Valley was the other option.

The Red Lake Senior High School , participated in their first robotics event March 2nd and 3rd at the Great Northern Regional Robotics Event held in Grand Forks, ND.