Albert V. Asleson Albert Vandoren “Buck” Asleson, 93, of Embarrass, died on Friday, March 29, 2019, in St. Michael’s Health and Rehabilitation Center in Virginia. Funeral services were held … more

ELY - Nearly 100 people gathered at Ely’s Whiteside Park last Friday to participate in “Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps.” Lights for Liberty candlelight vigils … more

ELY – Ely Police Chief John Lahtonen will retire in May 2020 after 26 years on the force, including the last 10 years as the department’s top official. City council members here accepted … more

REGIONAL- The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book, announces the next chapter in the new statewide book club, One Book | One Minnesota. Presented in … more

REGIONAL- The head of the state Department of Corrections told a state House committee that closing the Togo and Willow River correctional facilities was “one of a range of really bad … more

COOK – County Commissioner candidate Paul McDonald told the Cook City Council, last Thursday, of his plans to help expand county services in rural communities here if elected to the county board … more

ST. PAUL – Governor-elect Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor-elect Peggy Flanagan, Thursday, announced that Sarah Strommen has been appointed … more

REGIONAL - It was not Mother Nature playing an April Fools Day joke on John Lindquist when he collected 144 gallons of sap from his sugar maple trees on Birch Point on April 1. “We had never … more

ELY – The Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital’s decision to exit the home health medical care business is effective at the end of the month. What that decision means for patients in the Ely area … more

TOWER— Biwabik native Tom Mattson has traveled the world and his eclectic recollections of those adventures have been compiled in his new book, The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious … more