Brainerd Dispatch | Brainerd Baxter Minnesota

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— "Midwest Made," a popular web series on sports stories from across the region, is coming to TV starting this weekend.

The series will be broken up into three half-hour programs that will be aired on May 2, May 9 and May 16.

"Midwest Made" launched online as an offering from the Forum Communications-owned Midwest Sports+ web...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota Rep. Kristin Robbins has ended her bid for Minnesota governor.

"After much thought and prayer, I have decided to suspend my campaign for Governor of Minnesota," the Republican lawmaker from Maple Grove said in a Friday, May 1, news release.

Robbins, 58, is a fourth-term representative who was first elected to the House in...

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ROSEMOUNT, Minn. — For nearly a decade, James Everett's loved ones wondered where he went.

He left his New York state home for a work trip in September 2013 — and never returned.

A year later, unbeknownst to Everett's friends and family members,

David Tauchen remembers growing up in the shade of the Rocky Mountains and how his mom would take the lead in planning and organizing the family’s fishing trips.

“I grew up fishing, and I can attest from my childhood that my mom was the one who organized a lot of the trips,” he said. “We did a lot of fishing in the mountains of Colorado, and my mom played a b...