The Gophers’ current revenue-sharing contracts with players include a payment for when they appear on the active roster for the bowl game. While some players will still opt out and forgo this money, ...

Max Plante and Logan Hensler remember playing in St. Paul during the 2022 state tournaments for their respective high schools. They’re back to compete for Team USA at the World Junior Championship.

The project will proceed county by county and is scheduled for completion by 2032. The next round of updates will include Crow Wing County.

Nikki Entzel and Earl Howard were convicted in the slaying of Entzel's husband Chad. His body was discovered in January 2020 after a suspicious fire burned the couple's home.

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

The sale also will offer a selection of plant kits to attract monarch butterflies and rusty patched bumblebees, as well as plants for rain gardens, shoreline stabilization and woodland edges.

The Nativity at First Congregational United Church of Christ and St. Francis Catholic Church Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in Brainerd.

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1925.

In 2017, 70-year-old Joseph Leon Edminster pleaded guilty to cutting off the tops of thousands of trees in Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest.

Christmas trees light up the side of a snowy hill on Pine Beach Road on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. Tim Speier joined the Brainerd Dispatch in October 2021, covering Public Safety. He can be reached via ...

In an alternate universe, quarterback J.J. McCarthy didn’t suffer a small hairline fracture in his right hand, which meant he was able to continue his upward trajectory for the Vikings last weekend in ...

On Tuesday, the Loons came away with a pending trade to acquire Drake Callender from Charlotte FC, a source told the Pioneer Press. The Athletic, which first reported the news, also said Tuesday ...