Aitkin County News

Submitted by Journal Staff on June 23, 2009 - 12:16pm. Sadie Running was born June 28, 1908, in Chisholm, Minn.

The North Central Drug Task Force is comprised of Agents from the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department, the Aitkin County Sheriffa s Office, the Kanabec County Sheriffa s Office and the Mille Lacs County Sheriffa s Office.

After months of searching, the body of fisherman Michael Hedin has been recovered from Lake Mille Lacs.

In October 2007, Don Obernolte, 50, of St. Paul was cutting firewood at the family farm near McGregor, Minn., when straight-line winds snapped a tree he was working on.

A former Minneapolis police officer who pushed a man out of the path of a drunken driver to safety has died 12 years after his leg was severed in that North Side collision.

Carol Hedin gazed across Lake Mille Lacs on Wednesday afternoon, hoping her husband, who has been missing in the lake since last October, would be found soon.

A 25-year-old Isle man has been arrested and charged with one second-degree felony controlled substance crime.

Interactive: Track all awarded MnDOT stimulus projects The projects keep rolling in.

A early everning fire has destroyed the Town & Country Motel in McGregor. The fire broke out around 5:15 p.m. Thursday.

This week marks the one-year anniversary of a still unsolved three-county arson and burglary spree which included the torching of nine cabins on Big Pine Lake and the Finlayson-Giese Sportmen's Club.

One family's story illustrates a central fact of the prolonged U.S. Senate race: Some absentee ballots got counted while others did not, as voters and officials wrestled with complicated rules with varying degrees of success.

What a winter it was. Nature dumped some good old-fashioned blizzards, numbing cold temperatures and a long-lasting blanket of snow on us just to remind us that this is, after all, Minnesota.

A storm system making its way toward Minnesota and upper Wisconsin in the next few days could dump as much as a foot of snow in some places.

There's a bill in the Legislature that would authorize Sunday liquor sales, so the Austin Daily Herald asked three local liquor stores how they liked the idea.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has announced a list of city and county road projects in greater Minnesota that will get $75 million from the federal stimulus package.

An 11-year-old boy was killed in a rollover accident in Aitkin County Friday night.

An organization called "Water Legacy" has formed in an attempt to block the PolyMet copper nickel mine from going ahead on the Iron Range.

Our region hosts several vintage snow mobile runs every winter and one of the oldest is the one in Tamarack, Minnesota.

A farm-raised elk from a herd in Olmsted County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health.

For me, photographing birds depends on two things: good fortune and cooperative birds.