Polk County News

The Polk County Sheriff's Office has removed 29 underweight hunting dogs from an unsanitary outbuilding at a rural residence near Erskine, Minn.

Polk County Prosecutors say 31-year-old Breezetta Etienne pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree attempted murder.

The St. Croix River divides Interstate State Park between Minnesota and Wisconsin near Taylors Falls, Minn.

A Twin Valley, Minn., man convicted of killing his wife eight years ago is set to be resentenced in a Polk County courtroom Tuesday.

Polk County's Drug Task Force, in its first year of operation, was responsible for almost 50 arrests in 2008, and some task force members expect to see more action in future years, particularly a resurgence of methamphetamine.

The old Palace Hotel in downtown Crookston is back on a list of Minnesota's "10 Most Endangered Historic Places." The four-story structure, also known as the Wayne Hotel, was built in the 1890s.

On Tuesday, representatives from the City of Perham, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Otter Tail County will meet with the Becker County Board to discuss the proposed expansion of Perhama s solid waste incinerator.

Kellie Anne Lundon-Cormican, 39, of Crookston, Minn., was sentenced by the Honorable Michael J. Kraker March 4 in Polk County District Courton five counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a 14-year-old boy.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has reopened state Highway 75 from Hendrum in Norman County, north to the junction with state Highway 220 at Climax in Polk County.

The body of a rural Climax man reported missing late last week has been found in the flood-swollen Red River.

A man last heard from on March 29 has been found dead in the Red River near Climax, Minn.

It doesn't matter which side you stand on, history was made today in the heartland.

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday struck down a decade-old law that barred gays from marrying, making the state the first in the U.S. heartland to allow same-sex marriages.

Three of George Broadwell's four sons were in Thief River Falls last week to participate in their father's March 27 retirement party.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the drunken driving conviction of a Polk County man who was arrested while behind the wheel of a parked car.

No children were seriously hurt when a woman drove her vehicle into a Crookston school bus after school.

The East Grand Forks Police Department is running at minimum staffing levels and will be two officers short after Detective Rick Blazek retires at the end of the month.

A Gully, Minn., man was killed Thursday morning when his large, flatbed pickup truck was rear-ended by a semitrailer in eastern Pennington County.

Wisconsin investigators say DNA found on a screwdriver at an Osceola rock quarry linked a White Bear Lake man to a large copper theft last fall.

Polk Co. commissioners want your input Crookston - "Every meeting of the Polk County commissioners is shadowed by the problem of the looming budget crisis.