A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1924.

Peter Carlson recalls passengers and crew all chipping in to guide everyone safely away from the smouldering plane ...

When people marvel at how “brave” I am for traveling with a toddler, I tell them I’m not uniquely courageous—just battle-hardened. I’ve been traveling with my 2.5-year-old son, Julian, since he was ...

It was standing room only in Sullivan's City Hall council chambers on Thursday morning as Mayor JD Wilson presided over a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the worst mining ...

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It's classed as one of the worst mining disasters in the area. This is a yearly thing - we hold it every year on February 16." The disaster took place at around 3.45pm that day. To mark that ...

Stauber’s press release about his new bill says that the inability to mine near the BWCAW is “a direct attack on our way of life in northern Minnesota.” Stauber argues we need this mining ...

A newly published study by researchers at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Geological Survey, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

What was supposed to be a celebration of Terrence Shannon Jr.'s college career will now be remembered as a massive blunder by the Illinois athletic department. The Minnesota Timberwolves guard had ...

Thursday morning marked the 100th anniversary of a deadly mine explosion in Sullivan that claimed the lives of 51 people.

Thursday morning the Sullivan community came together honor and remember the 51 lives lost in a mine explosion in 1925. It ...