Clay County News

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an updated permit for an expansion of the Clay County Sanitary Landfill near Hawley.

Otter Tail County could be asked to pay $46,000 as its share of a deficit at the West Central Regional Juvenile Center in Moorhead.

Swine flu vaccine is in high demand around the country. But officials say only half of the stock of H1N1 FluMist vaccine was used up during Fargo-Moorhead's first public vaccination clinic.

Some rural Minnesota counties are concerned expanding the state's welfare fraud efforts will overload investigators and weaken a successful program.

A plan to consolidate 911 emergency call centers across the state is drawing fire in northwestern Minnesota.

A 2-year-old boy from Glyndon, Minn., was killed Saturday afternoon when he ran across a rural road and was struck by a vehicle.

The Clay County Sheriff says a 2-year-old boy was killed after he was struck by a car on a rural road near Glyndon.

Authorities say two North Dakota men face charges after a home invasion in which the owner of a Minnesota farmhouse was tied to his chair.

The attorney for a man charged with strangling a Moorhead woman in 1993 says he will seek a psychiatric exam for his client.

A North Dakota man has been indicted on murder charges in the death of a Minnesota woman 16 years ago.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of a man in a 1997 gang killing in northwest Iowa, saying the state failed to comply with his right to a speedy trial.

Authorities in Clay County looking for speeders have been busy over the past month.

Shortly before 9:30 Friday night, as a band of thunderstorms moved through Clay County, Minnesota, five people inside a house in Barnesville were shocked when the house was struck by lightning.

An analysis of 310 flood-prone homes in line for government buyouts in the Fargo area shows their average prices are on the higher end.

Morrie Lanning was Moorheada s mayor for 22 years and a city councilman for six years before that.

Jodi Klonowski got high on crack cocaine 30 minutes before her first court appearance months ago.

Three Clay County sheriff's deputies have received one of the department's top awards for their actions in a shootout with man later convicted of kidnapping.

A 19-month-old boy was hospitalized after a family dog bit him in the face Sunday afternoon about nine miles south of Hawley, according to the Clay County Sheriffa s Department.

It wona t happen in time for the big Memorial Day weekend, but law enforcement officers in Minnesota will soon have a new tool at their disposal.

A Dilworth man is accused in Clay County District Court of molesting two young children while they were living in a relativea s home in 2003.