Cook County News

A new study from the Minnesota Taxpayers Association confirms what we've all suspected: Property tax rates are up in the state and rose faster than market rates.

Paula Sundet of Grand Marais and John Wolf of Lutsen were married September 12, 2009 in the beautiful Lutsen Lutheran Church in Lutsen, Minnesota.

The five-city meeting in Tower Wednesday night brought representatives of Ely, Babbitt, Tower, Cook, and Orr together to talk about ways to cooperate to maintain quality education in the communities.

Since the public beta launch of Miro Community on Thursday, we've been excited to see what kind of sites people would create.

A 36-year-old Richfield man charged with making terroristic threats during an argument with another man in Wright County has been arrested at Chicago's O'Hare Airport after skipping out before his trial was to begin this month, authorities in Minnesota said Friday.

Minnesota bridges rated: An interactive map of bridges that are "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or have gusset plates like those on the I-35W bridge.

A 73 year old Lutsen man has been charged in connection with an armed robbery at the Grand Portage Trading Post earlier this month.

MinnPost photo by Jim Boyd Jetty St. John and dog Scarlett overlooking Cook County's rugged landscape which poses impediments to connectivity.

The Cook County Local Energy Project is working with Arrowhead Electric Cooperative in eyeing North Shore sites to test wind resources for possible wind turbines.

In the Twin Cities, high-speed Internet access may be taken for granted. In Cook County, on the north shore of Lake Superior, such access would represent a virtual revolution.

You can be pretty popular when you're giving away $7.2 billion. A standing-room-only audience of more than 350 people packed the ballroom of the Crown Plaza Riverfront in downtown St.

The Cook County Highway Department and Northland Constructors of Duluth, LLC, have paid a $22,000 civil penalty to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for alleged water quality violations and performed all stipulated activities.

Federal grantmakers for broadband projects will meet in St. Paul today, but Minnesota cities hoping for a chunk of the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money fear that the rules are written to shut them out.

We're fortunate to have a lot of lakes and rivers to fish in Minnesota. We're noted as the Land of 10,000 Lakes for a reason, and each water system is unique.

It was mid-morning Friday, June 26, and Kathy Tagg, age 56, was home still in her pjs.

Forty-one-year-old 1st Lt. Derwin Williams of Glenwood and 35-year-old Spc. Chester Hosford of Ottawa were killed Monday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kandu.

The body of a man who drowned in the Temperence River in Tofte, Minnesota on the Fourth of July has been recovered.

The troubles for the folks at Bluefin Bay Resort in Tofte continued Monday. The resort's large firewood pile on the north side of Highway 61 caught fire Monday morning.

A Ramsey man drowned in the Temperance River in northern Minnesota on Saturday. The Cook County Sheriff's Office says Ari Benjamin Sommerfeld, 45, swimming in the river near Tofte.

After visiting with and walking around Fairview Ridges Hospital, Dr. Philip Randall, center, says goodbye to clockwise from top right: Georgia Muelken, 10; Maggie, 6; Monica, 2; and Maggie, 6. Dr.