Cook County News

The Cook County Events and Visitors Bureau announced the appointment of Kate Surbaugh as its new Events Director.

Officials plan next week to begin spraying a compound in northeastern Minnesota designed to disrupt the mating of gypsy moths.

Officials plan next week to begin spraying a compound in northeastern Minnesota designed to disrupt the mating of gypsy moths.

On a windy night in October, Ken Petersen was on his way home from church choir practice in Grand Marais when a tree that had fallen across the Gunflint Trail blocked his path.

An Eveleth man has been charged in connection with the 4th of July pedestrian fatality in Cook County.

The Minnesota State Patrol says a Nebraska man was struck and killed late Friday night, while he was walking across Highway 61 in Tofte.

A 29-year-old youth counselor and a 17-year-old girl, both members of a Twin Cities church group, died after they were swept away by the swift-flowing Temperance River in northeastern Minnesota and carried over ...

A woman and a teenage-girl from the metro are dead after drowning in a river in northeastern Minnesota Wednesday night.

Celebrating Minnesota's 150th anniversary, also known as the Sesquicentennial, provides an opportunity for all of us to pause and reflect about where we've been as a state and where we want to go.

The city of Grand Marais is recovering quickly after floodwaters washed out roads and turned parts of downtown into ponds.

As northern Minnesota cleaned up from Friday's storms, a new front brought tornadoes and damaging hail to central and southeastern Wisconsin and flood warnings in Minnesota.

Thursday night's storm that brought flooding to the Northland caused damage and inconvenience.

No travel is advised on roads in northeastern Minnesota's Cook County. Heavy rains have flooded some roads.

Life In Christ Lutheran Church will be offering a second Sunday morning Divine Service up the Gunflint Trail at Heston's Lodge on South Gunflint Lake Road.

Joan Farnam Feature Editor Michael Monroe returns to Grand Marais performances following spring performances around the state, Pennsylvania and Toronto, Ontario where he will perform again in September.

A fire destroyed a townhome building at the Eagle Ridge Resort at the Lutsen Mountains ski area, but there were no injuries.

Pictures Courtesy of Stephanie Radloff & WTIP Community Radio. A fire at the Eagle Ridge Resort in Lutsen, MN has destroyed two townhomes.

“There are 350 different dialects, though the common language is English.”

SARTELL - Dr. Olayiwola Adetunji came to America via the lottery - the green card lottery. via St. Cloud Times Online

“The fire started on a Saturday, we heard about it Monday...about 12 hours later we learned it had perished”

The Gunflint Trail is a place where people come to visit and live for the serenity. via WDIO

Bond has been set at $15,000 for a St. Xavier University freshman from St. Paul accused of scrawling a threatening message in a dorm restroom that closed the campus for several days last month. via St. Paul Pioneer Press