The Barnum/ Moose Lake/ Willow River Legion squad battled through three close games this week. Layne Radzak started the first game of a mid week double header in Hibbing on ...

Pine County Administrator David Minke has accepted the position of county administrator for Aitkin County with the start date of September 8 of this year.

The Minnesota Nurses Association at Essentia’s clinics, surgery center, hospice house and East Market facilities announce the end of their historic Unfair Labor Practice Strike on Tuesday, July 22, 20 ...

On July 23, 2025, at approximately 4:10 am, Communications received a 911 call reporting the glass on the front door of the Lucky Seven gas station in the ...

David and his wife Carol Prachar, former Chairs of the Willow River Days Committee, will be Grand Marshalls for this year’s ...

ike I was saying, out front there’s a hawthorne struggling in the clay,;and looking like the witching tree, a birch clump, a very healthy silver, one small boxelder, the two red pines that might be a ...

he Legend has passed. We lost our beloved yodeling cowboy, hotshot basketball star Daniel Emil Kempi 85, on July 6, 2025. The good Lord saw him suffering and called the shots – as He always does – so ...

Reusing and repurposing is trendy and a good way to help the environment by keeping items out of quickly filling landfills.

The Gem and Mineral Show is both Saturday and Sunday at the hockey arena. The vendors fill the arena and spill into the ...

The Barnum/ Moose Lake/ Willow River Senior Legion baseball nine traveled to Ely over the weekend and lost a pair on Saturday ...

In March 2025, the board voted 5-0 to approve the resolution to reclassify the tax forfeited property as non-conservation and sell it in a public auction. Wilma Township opposed the sale, which ...

Loons are excellent indicators of water quality as they require crystal-clear lakes (which makes it easier for them to see prey underwater) with abundant populations of small fish. They need lakes ...