In mid-July 2017 the National Park Service approved a proposal by Isle Royale Seaplanes (IRS) to offer seaplane service from Grand Marais to Isle Royale. IRS already had an existing contract with the park to provide air taxi service from Houghton, Michigan to Isle Royale through 2025. After a short season which concluded at the end of September, John Rector, […]
Protect Minnesota from invasive plant pests and diseases
Are you helping invasive pests spread in Minnesota or around our country? You may have heard that invasive plant pests and diseases are primarily introduced through commercial trade—that’s true. But once they are here, these destructive plant pests don’t move far on their own; they are mostly spread by us. Through our everyday actions—when we take firewood from home to […]
Cook County Law Enforcement briefs
It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News-Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Saturday, Oct. 1412:06 a.m., Grand Marais: Deerstruck at mile marker 121. The deerran off, and the vehicle […]
Matters of Record
The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the potential punishment exceeds $150 and/or 10 days in jail. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not be granted. Seth Michael Hendrickson, 22, Grand […]
ASK A TROOPER— Making progress in highway safety
Question: I know that Minnesota has made a lot of progress for traffic safety and less people are dying on our roads, but what are other states doing? Answer: For the first time in nearly a decade, preliminary data from the National Safety Council estimates that as many as 40,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2016 across theUnitedStates.That’sa6percent […]
