Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, 506 James St., Brainerd, MN, 56401.

Weather drawing by Mitzi Wasnie of Mrs. Bender's second grade class at Baxter Elementary School. Attention teachers: Don't ...

The Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes On the Edge Spa as a new member. On the Edge is a tanning and red light ...

The Brainerd School Board is renewing its search for a new superintendent. Peter Grant is serving as the interim superintendent after the resignation of Heidi Hahn earlier this year. During last ...

As part of its commitment to enhance access to health care in every community they serve, Essentia Health will bring mobile mammograms directly to patients across the service ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — A 35-year-old Brainerd man accused of shooting another man to death and then abducting the suspect’s pregnant girlfriend and her four children was arraigned Monday in Crow ...

An arrest has been made in a violent home invasion in East Brainerd four years ago in which one of the intruders was shot 10 times and killed. The hail of bullets included multiple shots that went ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — Authorities say a man is in custody after allegedly abducting a pregnant woman and her four children, which prompted an AMBER Alert near Brainerd Friday morning. The victims ...

The Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension responded to a home near Brainerd on Friday, on reports of a shooting and abduction. Authorities in ...

The Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office says Dobson, who is pregnant, and her four children were abducted at gunpoint around 1:50 a.m. Friday morning, from a home northeast of Brainerd ...

BRAINERD — Law enforcement arrested a 35-year-old Brainerd man early Friday, Nov. 1, as a suspect in a shooting death and for allegedly abducting five people from a residence northeast of Brainerd.

The sheriff's office has also confirmed that a 62-year-old man, Lyle Maske, of Brainerd, was found fatally shot on Loerch Road, near to where the family was abducted, and say Aanerud is a suspect in ...