History

The dummy hanging by its neck from the boom of a logging truck probably was reason enough for Sigurd Olson to turn around and go home. It was July 8, 1977, and tensions in northeastern Minnesota had reached a fever pitch over a proposal to carve out the Boundary Waters as a national...

WATSON — The Lac qui Parle Mission reopened Thursday. The site had been closed since July 28 after a storm damaged the building and toppled trees on the site. According to a news release, contractors repaired broken rafters and re-shingled the roof. The site will remain open...

It was more than 65 years ago — June 25, 1950 — that North Korean tanks rolled acrossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea starting the Korean War. This was a war that was never officially declared, was officially referred to as a military engagement, but would become...

WASHINGTON—Owning a fragment of history—a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button—is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been beneath 300 feet of water off Ireland's south coast since a single...