After the recent tornado damage in Minneapolis and Missouri, CenterPoint Energy is reminding the public of important natural gas safety tips after severe weather. “It is very important that residents know what to do when they return home after severe weather and utility damage,”  Dean Headl...

In the final hours of the 2011 legislative session most area lawmakers said they expected a special session would be necessary in order for the Republican-controlled House and Senate and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton to reach agreement on a budget bill that’s needed to fix a projected $5 billion gap in the...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The final hours of Minnesota's legislative session slipped away Monday without any sense of finality because lawmakers will leave without a budget deal and must return at Gov. Mark Dayton's call to solve a $5 billion deficit. A stubborn dispute over taxes and spending kept t...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A second death has been reported after a tornado that tore through north Minneapolis. Friends and relatives say 53-year-old Rob MacIntyre collapsed about 6 p.m. Sunday, not long after he finished chain-sawing a tree blocking a street a block from his house. It wasn't immediately...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Tim Pawlenty is casting himself as the Republican candidate willing to tell the country hard truths as he seeks the presidency, announcing in corn-dependent Iowa that its prized federal subsidies for ethanol should be phased out. Pawlenty made his first public appearance Mo...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At least one person died when a tornado barreled through a residential portion of Minneapolis on Sunday, damaging at least 100 homes, toppling hundreds of trees and injuring at least 29 people. The tornado was part of a weather system that raked the metro area from west to east ...

If you’ve ever spent time in downtown Brainerd, chances are you’ve heard the bells toll. Some days you might even hear the bells chiming something reminiscent of a top 40 single circa 1965.  Was that the Beatles?...

LITTLE FALLS — Two people were injured in a two-vehicle, head-on collision at about 10:15 p.m. Friday on Highway 27, eight miles west of Little Falls, the State Patrol reported. One driver, Cynthia Rowen, 54, Little Falls, was westbound on Highway 27 when her vehicle crossed the center line and st...

This Memorial Day weekend, a military appreciation event, with support going to military families, begins Sunday at Cragun’s resort near Brainerd.  The second annual Family Fun Days, a military appreciation event, begins at 11:30 a.m. with a Color Guard presentation and guest speaker Col. Sco...

LITTLE FALLS — The Executive Committee of the Morrison County Republican Party accepted the resignation of Perry Nouis Thursday night during the committee’s monthly meeting in Little Falls.     Nouis, who was re-elected chairman of the Morrison County GOP in February, submitted his res...