Oklee News

OKLEE, MINN. a ' Four boys grew up on the Red Lake County farm near Oklee that their father homesteaded in 1896, a swampy bog south of Thief River Falls that took time and heroic effort for John and Mary Larson and their sons to drain, plow and make a going concern.

Oklee is a town of about 300 people in Red Lake County of northwest Minnesota. Public domain image A couple of deer hunters never expected to find a man lying dead in a farm field in northern Minnesota -- only to find out later that the dead man's brother was also lying near death in a ditch not far away.

An Oklee, Minn., man died and his brother is in serious condition after apparently suffering hypothermia early Wednesday morning near their home, according to the Red Lake County sheriff's office.

A 95-year-old man from northwestern Minnesota is hospitalized after he went out looking for his older brother who had wandered off.

Char Brekken is a former Oklee resident who is serving as the fundraising coordinator for the Northern Plains Affiliate of the Huntington's Disease Society of America.

Char Brekken is a former Oklee resident who is serving as the fundraising coordinator for the Northern Plains Affiliate of the Huntingtona s Disease Society of America.

ERSKINE, Minn. - Capacity is king at the Erskine Grain Terminal in northwestern Minnesota.

CHS Northwest Grain is in the process of expanding its Hazel site about 10 miles southeast of Thief River Falls.