Walker News

Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity hosted its 12th Annual Dinner and Auction on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at the Breezy Point Convention Center.

Searchers found the body of Andrew Lindberg Wednesday in the wreckage of his single-engine plane that had disappeared on Friday.

Authorities in northwestern Minnesota plan to check plane wreckage today that was spotted in a remote, wooded area in Clearwater County.

The city of Nevis in north central Minnesota a ' between Park Rapids and Walker a ' will save about $18,000 a year now that it has disbanded its "police department." The city's sole officer had been part-time Police Chief Ed Franckowiak, said the Park Rapids Enterprise .

Four board members were elected at the Cass County Economic Development Corporation's 6th annual meeting in Walker on October 29th.

Governor Tim Pawlenty has ordered that all U.S. flags and Minnesota flags be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings in the State of Minnesota, from sunrise until sunset on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, in honor and remembrance of Specialist George W. Cauley.

Lying in an Afghanistan field hospital last week, newly wounded by a roadside bomb, Spc.

The Department of Defense has identified 865 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A Soldier from Walker, Minnesota has died in the line of Duty. The Minnesota Guard says Specialist George.

The Department of Defense announced yesterday the death of a Minnesota National Guard Soldier supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

24-year-old National Guard Specialist George Cauley of Walker's former high school principal Joseph Akre of Remer describes him as a very patriotic and very pleasant young man to be around.

Two Minnesota families are mourning the loss of two men killed last week fighting for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Of those, the military reports 612 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 72 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Defense Department has announced the death of a soldier from Walker, Minn., in Afghanistan.

Walker will be getting a Matty's restaurant. Owner Matt Walsh, who has a Matty's in Brainerd and Lake Shore, is opening a restaurant in downtown Walker in November.

Susan R. Miles, a district court judge in Washington County, has been elected president of the Minnesota District Judges Association.

The Archdiocese is embarking on a realignment in which nothing is off limits to change.

A former 8th-grade science teacher with a part-time gig at a sporting goods store in Walker apparently swiped some guns and sold them on eBay.

In late May 2008, one of the owners of Reed's Family Outdoor Outfitters in Walker, Minn., noticed that items from its stores were showing up for sale, cheap, on the online auction site eBay, usually with the store's price stickers still attached.

Is "free" a cheap enough massage? Student clinics offer free and low-priced rubdowns to relax the physically or financially stressed.