Buffalo River State Park adjoins a 6,000-acre Bluestem Prairie Preserve. (Photo courtesy of Visit Fargo-Moorhead)ST. PAUL, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) — A procedural hangup in the deadlocked Minnesota House threatens to derail nearly $200 million in funding for habitat conservation and restoration across the state. At a Capitol press conference Thursday, representatives from at least eight environmental groups implored lawmakers to put aside…
Eliotte Heinz/La Crosse Police DepartmentLA CROSSE, Wis. (KVRR) — The body of a missing Wisconsin grad student is discovered in the Mississippi River. The La Crosse Police Department says that shortly before 10:30 this morning they were notified by the Houston County Sheriff’s Department that a body was found. Eliotte Heinz, 22, has been missing since the early morning hours…
FOX 9ELK RIVER, Minn. (KVRR/FOX 9) — The body of missing Minnesota father is recovered after he went missing in the Mississippi River. The Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 41-year-old Cody Pope was found after two days of searching. Search and rescue crews have been combing the river since late Friday morning after he disappeared under water….
GOODUE CO., Minn. (AP) — The bodies of three people who drowned in a southern Minnesota river are found by search crews after going missing over the Fourth of July weekend. The swimmers were part of a family gathering Monday night at Diamond Island on the Vermillion River, near the confluence with the Mississippi River, southeast of the Twin Cities….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — Governor Tim Walz signs a $2.6 billion infrastructure bill into law. It’s the largest one in state history. The money will to repairing roads and bridges, creating jobs, and investing in infrastructure across Minnesota. Over $500 million will go to water projects in the state. He signed the bill along the Mississippi River near the…
BELTRAMI CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two groups tubing on the Mississippi River just east of Bemidji get into a fight in a shallow spot of the river and one woman is stabbed. Beltrami County deputies were sent to the river around 6:30 Sunday night. They say the fight involved around 25 people. 20-year-old Alleyah Goodman of Deer River was arrested…
RED WING, Minn. — Unconditional bail is set at $1.5 million for a Red Wing woman charged with leaving her newborn son to die beside a lake nearly 20 years ago. Authorities say Jennifer Matter also abandoned another infant in the Mississippi River years earlier. Matter appeared in court in via video on second-degree murder charges in the 2003 death…
RED WING, Minn. – A Red Wing, Minnesota woman has been charged in the death of her newborn who was abandoned at a lake nearly 20 years ago. Fifty-year-old Jennifer Matter was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the December 2003 death of a newborn boy whose body was found in Frontenac on the shore of Lake Pepin….
Willow River/Honor the EarthST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says there have been 28 inadvertent releases of drilling fluid at 12 river crossings along the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline project, more than the agency first reported. The releases happening between June 8 and August 9. Thirteen of the spills were in wetlands, including 6,000 to 9,000 gallons released…
CAMPBELL, WI — A Fargo woman is facing charges in Wisconsin after fleeing from police at speeds nearing 140 miles per hour. Prosecutors in La Crosse County charging 36-year-old Amy Torres with felony attempting to elude an officer and misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. According to the criminal complaint, a Campbell police officer was running radar…
