In a nation and a state with more unemployed workers than available jobs, few insights may be as useful as those that say work toward this career a well-paying job awaits.  Ah, if it were only that easy.  Not to mention all those other factors that go into finding the right job that combin...

  When children walk through the entrance gates at Paul Bunyan Land and see the 26-foot high statue of Paul — who has a boot size of 80 and a belt size that is 12 1/2 feet long, with a 500-pound ax — they are already giddy and full of excitement. But when Paul opens his mouth and says, “H...

  BAXTER — Getting ready for work the morning of Aug. 9 was not an average day for Deb Piepgras of Brainerd. In fact, that entire week in August, Piepgras had to play a single mom to her two children — Josh, 7, and Brandon, 4, and two dogs — since her husband, Matt Eberts, was on vacation...

What draws prospective employees to the Brainerd area? Sure, there’s the amenities — the lakes and any number of other outdoor activities, the school systems, the relatively inexpensive housing, being a regional commercial center and being centrally located in the state, to name a few.  Fiv...

Mold galore, unfinished remodeling projects, foreclosure homes that have been ransacked down to next to nothing to homes full of garbage. The list goes on and on. And someone has to deal with the aftermath of a challenging housing market. It’s been a tough world to live in these past few years as ...

Water. It’s the lifeblood of every golf course. Not enough and grass dries up and dies. Too much and disease sets in and grass dies. Those in charge of achieving the correct balance are called golf course superintendents, and this summer has been a tug-of-war between watering or applying fungicide...

  The old fish has called this place home for two years, Al Lindner figures. And while the nice-sized bass is right at home in a tank loaded with logs, weeds and natural structure, the fish generally shies away from people and bright lights, Lindner said....

As soon as you turn onto Main Street in downtown Crosby you see one thing — antiques. Everywhere. There are several different antique stores on Main Street alone. I like antiques, but have never really been much of an “antique-er.” However, living in northern Minnesota, you eventually succumb ...