MENTOR, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A popular lake in the northern valley is getting some upgrades ahead of the summer season. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office helped the Polk County Highway Department ...

Maple Lake's Grant Mergen (right) leaps into the air as his teammates (left) join him in celebrating the Lakers' Class C state amateur baseball title victory over Bird Island on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, ...

LITCHFIELD — Litchfield and Maple Lake both scored four runs at opportune times. For Litchfield, it was a four-run bottom of the first inning that put it in the driver’s seat of Monday’s Division II ...

GRAND FORKS — Safe Kids, Polk County Public Health, Medica and Win-E-Mac School have worked together to start a free life jacket loaner program at Maple Lake, hoping people will wear them while ...

Maple Lake, the focal centerpiece of Paw Paw, has been plagued by weeds for at least a decade, and the Paw Paw Village Council is now debating a costly but aggressive plan to combat the growth. “It’s ...

MENTOR, Minn. - June Hoveland had the pleasure of teaching the Everly Brothers to water-ski. The fun part was steadying the heartthrob rock 'n' rollers in the water before liftoff, to the envy of ...

MENTOR, Minn. (Valley News Live) - Two Polk County Sheriff’s Deputies and two Polk County Highway Department employees ended up in Maple Lake near Mentor, after the airboat they were on tipped and ...