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  • Remi Leland Stately

    Mar 22, 2024

    Remi Leland Stately June 24, 2017 ~ March 16, 2024 (age 6) Remi Leland Stately, Manidoo Inini "Spirit Man", Eagle Clan, age 6, travelled to the spirit world on Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Red Lake, MN. Remi was born on June 24, 2017, in Bemidji, MN, to Jennifer Stately and Brian Graves Jr. Remi was a smart, funny, loving little boy who loved to play with his brothers, Tristan and Ethan. He loved Jessie from Toy Story and Molly from Bubble Guppies. Left to cherish his memory are: his parents:...

  • Tristan Collin Stately

    Mar 22, 2024

    Tristan Collin Stately December 15, 2018 ~ March 16, 2024 (age 5) Tristan Collin Stately, Manidoo Gwiiwizens "Spirit Boy", Eagle Clan, age 5, travelled to the spirit world on March 16, 2024, in Red Lake, MN. Tristan was born on December 15, 2018, in Bemidji, MN, to Jennifer Stately and Brian Graves Jr. Tristan was an outgoing spirited little boy who loved playing with his brothers, Remi and Ethan. He loved anything "Sonic" and was protector of his brothers, even though he was the middle child....

  • Red Lake Tribal Council Press Release Directed Towards All Media and Representatives

    Mar 22, 2024

    PRESS RELEASE 3/21/2024 The leadership of the Red Lake Nation is providing this notice to inform reporters and representatives of any form of media that they are not welcome to attend any memorial service that may take place on the Red Lake Reservation. We request that you respect the privacy of the family, friends nd supporters who may be in attendance at memorial services, and we direct that media representatives stay away from such services....

  • Steps to restore Red Lake's tribal boundaries lead to opposition, concerns

    Mar 22, 2024

    WASKISH, Minn. - Efforts to restore tribal boundaries to include the entirety of Upper Red Lake have gained some traction in the Minnesota State Legislature recently, but such plans won't go without opposition. One bill, House File 4780 and its companion Senate File 5080 would transfer all state-owned land and real property within 84,105 acres of Red Lake State Forest to the Red Lake Nation. This would also transfer land surrounding the entirety of Upper Red Lake including a 1-mile buffer that...

  • Congress races to pass $1.2 trillion in spending before shutdown deadline

    Mar 22, 2024

    Congress is staring down a fast-approaching government shutdown deadline, as lawmakers prepare to vote Friday morning on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending package to fund the federal government for the next six months. Support for the bill is hardly in doubt. President Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) all back it, and it's expected to pass with wide bipartisan majorities in both chambers. But negotiators spent so much time in...

  • Two years after start of Ukraine war, Russian titanium keeps flowing to West

    Mar 22, 2024

    Western firms bought hundreds of millions of dollars of titanium metal from a Russian company with deep ties to the country's defense industry after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to a review of Russian export data. The purchases illustrate how the West remains dependent on Russia for certain products despite pledges to break economic ties with Moscow. In the case of titanium, that dependence raises security concerns, industry and defense analysts say, as the metal is vital in the...

  • Democrats seize on a GOP budget proposal that would raise Social Security retirement age

    Mar 22, 2024

    In a deeply polarized election year, President Biden and fellow Democrats wasted little time lambasting a budget proposal from a large group of House Republicans that would, among other things, raise the retirement age for Social Security and endorse a bill that would codify that life begins at conception. The fiscal 2025 budget proposal was released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee - a bloc that includes 80 percent of Republicans in the House, including every member of House...

  • Minnesota promised foster kids free college. But now there isn't enough money.

    Mar 22, 2024

    Ace Goff doesn't know if she'll be able to go to college next year. She's been relying on a state grant that helps former foster children pay their tuition and living costs - and she just found out the program is facing a $5 million shortfall. Livid doesn't begin to describe how she's feeling. "You shouldn't have promised us anything if you guys weren't 100 percent sure," she said. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-promised-foster-kids-free-college-but-now-theres-not-enou...

  • A double dose of snow is coming to Minnesota. Here's what you need to know.

    Mar 22, 2024

    Snow has been in short supply in the Twin Cities this winter, with just 14.3 inches reported at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as of Wednesday. But a pair of storms - one Thursday night and a second on Sunday - will turn the landscape into a winter wonderland and bring almost as much snow as there has been all season, the National Weather Service said. Here is what to expect, and when: https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-snow-weather-storm/600352961/...

  • Half of Championship Saturday is set for the boys basketball state tournament

    Mar 22, 2024

    Class 1A quarterfinals THURSDAY At Target Center [1] Cherry 78, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 46 [5] Nevis 78, [4] Mountain Lake Area-Comfrey 54 [2] West Central Area 64, Heritage Christian 53 [3] Fertile-Beltrami 64, Goodhue 57 https://www.startribune.com/boys-basketball-state-tournament-minnesota-class-3a-4a-semifinals-class-1a-quarterfinals/600352953/...

  • Prairie Island Indian Community opening cannabis dispensary this summer

    Mar 22, 2024

    The Prairie Island Indian Community plans to open a cannabis dispensary this summer in Goodhue County, bringing legal marijuana sales closer than ever before to the Twin Cities. Island Peži, as the shop will be known, will open near Treasure Island Casino next to the Dakota Station convenience store in Welch. Peži, pronounced "pay-zhee," is a Dakota word for "grass." "Island Peži is a step forward in our efforts to diversify our economy and strengthen our tribe's long-term financial so...

  • Lakeville dance instructor charged with sexual assault

    Mar 22, 2024

    A Lakeville dance instructor was charged Thursday with sexual assault of a 17-year-old pupil at his home on numerous occasions. Timothy M. Olson Jr., 35, was charged in Dakota County District Court with third-degree criminal sexual conduct stemming from a series of liaisons during the summer and fall of 2022. Olson was charged by summons and is due in court on April 23. Court records do not list an attorney for him, and contact information for Olson was not immediately available. https://www.startribune.com/lakeville-dance-i...

  • Minnesota joins DOJ in Apple antitrust lawsuit

    Mar 22, 2024

    Minnesota is one of 16 states that has joined the Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleges that Apple holds a monopoly over the smartphone market in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. "Smartphones are essential devices in this day and age, but they don't need to be as expensive or restrictive as they currently are," Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement. "Apple's...

  • Evidence under debate as Minnesota state trooper charged in motorist's killing appears in court

    Mar 22, 2024

    The Minnesota state trooper charged with killing motorist Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop last summer appeared in court Thursday for arguments over what information his attorneys are entitled to from an independent use-of-force expert. Hennepin County District Judge Tamara Garcia heard arguments amid escalating tensions between the defense and prosecutors from County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office. Recent developments in the murder case show that the prosecution's independent use-of-force...

  • A new law restores voting for the formerly incarcerated. Minnesota is spreading the word in prisons.

    Mar 22, 2024

    Behind a 22-foot-high granite wall and layers of metal security gates, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon ran through the state's voter registration rules and how to cast a ballot absentee before Election Day. His audience: more than a dozen people incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud who will soon be released and can vote in the November election under a new state law. "The minute you step out of here, you get your right to vote back," Simon told the group,...

  • Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks as people scramble for cover in subway

    Mar 22, 2024

    KYIV, Ukraine - Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the first weeks of the war. Air defenses shot down all 31 of the missiles, though the falling wreckage still damaged apartment buildings and injured 13 people, including a child, officials said. An estimated 25,000 people, including...

  • Democrats and Republicans line up to support making straw gun purchase a state felony

    Mar 22, 2024

    The killing of two police officers and a paramedic in Burnsville last month has made "straw purchases" of firearms a critical issue for Minnesota lawmakers of both parties. Rep. Kaela Berg, DFL-Burnsville, said she wanted to craft a bill to address the specific circumstances of those shootings. The gunman was not legally allowed to own firearms, and federal prosecutors said in an indictment that his girlfriend purchased the weapons. "The AR-15-style weapons that were used against the first...

  • Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig students celebrate 'I Love to Read Week'

    Mar 22, 2024

    Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig students participated in the national Read Across America Week, March 2-6, with a variety of classroom activities, dress-up days and a bookmark design competition. Classes were given kits of activities put together by Media Specialist Laurie Jo Villwock and Secretary Sheryl Wilson. Each of the 15 kits contained a variety of paper puzzles, writing prompts, a Dr. Seuss book and art options for teachers to use, a release said. Classes also participated in dress-up days, "Drop...

  • "Walk of Remembrance" Walk held on Thursday, March 21, 2024 in Red Lake

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 22, 2024

    A "Walk of Remembrance" Walk was held on Thursday, March 21, 2024 in Red Lake at 3:30 PM. Sponsored by 3.21.05 Memorial Fund Projet...

  • More Than 40 Awards for Climate Projects in Tribal Communities Across Alaska

    Mar 22, 2024

    U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, on Tuesday welcomed the announcement of more than $30.4 million by the U.S. Department of the Interior for 42 climate resilience projects in tribal communities in Alaska. These awards, made through funding provided by Congress through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation Reduction Act, and the annual appropriations process, will help tribal communities across the state adapt and bolster the...

  • Attorney General Ellison sues Apple for monopolizing smartphone markets, joining DOJ and 15 state AGs

    Mar 22, 2024

    Complaint alleges Apple’s broad-based, exclusionary conduct makes it harder for Americans to switch smartphones, undermines innovation for apps, products, and services, and imposes extraordinary costs on developers, businesses, and consumers. March 21, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) — Attorney General Keith Ellison joined the Department of Justice and 15 other State Attorneys General in filing a lawsuit against Apple for monopolization or attempted monopolization of smartphone markets in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The complaint, filed in the...

  • Attorney General Ellison announces 2024 'Clean Slate' expungement tour

    Mar 22, 2024

    March 21, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) – Today, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced his Office’s 2024 “Clean Slate” tour of Minnesota. Over the next several months, his office will hold five expungement clinics across Minnesota where people with old convictions can have their records sealed, if they meet certain criteria. The Clean Slate Tour will kick off in St. Paul this Saturday with an event hosted in partnership with the Office of Ramsey County Attorney John Choi. At each tour stop, staff from the Minnesota Attorney General...

  • Minnesota Unemployment Rate and Job Numbers Hold Steady in February

    Mar 22, 2024

    St. Paul - The state’s unemployment rate remained at 2.7% in February, according to numbers released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Nationally, the unemployment rate ticked up two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.9%. Minnesota’s labor force participation rate is at 67.9% while the national labor force participation rate stayed at 62.5%. From January to February, Minnesota added just over 1,000 people to its labor force and gained 100 jobs. The private sector lost 1,600 jobs, down 0.1%. The U.S...

  • MnDOT conducts aerial photography on highways in northwest Minnesota beginning in April

    Mar 22, 2024

    Bemidji, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation is asking residents not to disturb aerial photography targets as crews begin aerial mapping in northwestern Minnesota. Landowners in the area that will have targets placed on or near their property will be contacted directly. Weather permitting, work will begin mid-April and conclude in late May. The mapping will take place in the following locations: • Highway 2 – Ball Club to Itasca CR 89 • Highway 11 – Williams • Highway 59 – Thief...

  • Fertile-Beltrami shuts down Red Lake in Section 8A Championship game 92-67 at the REA in Thief River Falls - P9

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 22, 2024

    Fertile-Beltrami shuts down Red Lake in Section 8A Championship game 92-67 at the REA in Thief River Falls Fertile-Beltrami advances to represent Section 8A in the State Tournament this week FERTILE-BELTRAMI IMPRESSIVE AS THEY BEAT RED LAKE IN SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP By KROX Radio The Fertile-Beltrami Falcons played an outstanding all-around game to build a big lead to defeat the Red Lake Warriors in the Section 8A Boys Basketball Championship game, 92-67, on Friday at the Ralph Englestad Arena in...

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