Pelican Rapids News

A float plane has crashed into Lake Lizzie, northeast of Pelican Rapids. Emergency personnel were setting up a command post at 470th and Poss Beach Road.

Perfect weather complemented all of the activities of the 12th Annual International Friendship Festival Saturday in Pelican Rapids.

Visitors and residents don't need to travel very far to experience other cultures.

Minnesota native Christopher Raabe and former champion Mary Akor won the men's and women's races respectively in Duluth's 33rd Grandma's Marathon on Saturday.

Rob and Kim Jacobson didna t initially set out to purchase a lake resort. Their original objective was to purchase lake property which would serve as a family summer getaway from their home in Fargo.

The humidity was thick in the air Thursday afternoon as a wall of black clouds come across the horizon toward Fergus Falls, bringing high winds with it.

Bus travel to the June 20 Pelican Rapids International Festival will be provided by the Multi District Cultural Collaborative.

A pickup truck crossed the center line on a two-lane highway in western Minnesota and struck a semitrailer truck head-on, killing the driver in the smaller vehicle, authorities said.

The 93-year-old car made a whirring noise when Don Linn started the engine. It putted as he drove down the street, heading toward his Fergus Falls home.

The amount of money Otter Tail County officials may appropriate for Memorial Day activities will remain at its current level after commissioners received a request for a funding increase.

Pelican Pete flew the nest during Memorial Day weekend with a little help. One of the pelican statues from outside of State Bank and Trust, located at 15 N. Broadway in Pelican Rapids, was taken that weekend, probably on Sunday night, Pelican Rapids Police Chief Jeff Stadum said.

Otter Tail County commissioners are set to meet as the countya s Human Services Board and the County Board Tuesday in the commissionersa room at the Government Services Center.

State teacher program seen by administrators as an additional source of funding during lean times.

Police say a 25-year-old Moorhead woman was punched in the face in a road rage incident.

By John Fitzgerald Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Since 2003, state funding for K-12 education in Minnesota has dropped an inflation-adjusted 13 percent.

Minnesotaa TMs largest state park, St. Croix, is worth a visit if you travel along Interstate 35, between the Twin Cities and Duluth.

The Highway Patrol says a man lost control of his motorcycle on Interstate 94 in Fargo and was injured after the motorcycle ran into the back of a car driven by his mother.

As a young girl living in Egypt, Salada Duqow's only exposure to the idea of high school graduation came through the television screen.

No one was injured in a fire that killed two dogs at an Erhard home Saturday afternoon.

A LeSueur, Minn., woman reported that her pit bull jumped out of the back window of her pickup truck Saturday and attacked a bull in a pasture southeast of Pelican Rapids, according to an Otter Tail County sheriff's office report.