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Gov. Dayton sets out on 10-day European mission

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is embarking this week on his latest overseas trade trip with stops planned in Germany, Sweden and Norway. Dayton will be gone...

news / state Mon, Jun 10, 2013 - 6:00am

Stefan Oster, center, his son Jacob, left, and Stefan's sister Christina Oster, of Gottenburg, Sweden, are shown Sunday at the Old Log Church where they attended a service as part of the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War. Their family members were involved in the conflict in what is now Monson Lake State Park. (Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange)

Remembering the victims of the U.S.-Dakota War but forgetting the conflict

NEW LONDON -- It was 150 years ago today that 13 early settlers in the Norway Lake and Monson Lake areas were killed in the prairie farmland in what is...

news / local Mon, Aug 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Syttende Mai events set in area communities

Events marking Syttende Mai -- literally May 17, which is Norway's Constitution Day -- have been set in area communities over the next three days. In Norway, according to the...

showcase / region Thu, May 17, 2012 - 12:00pm

Vern Nelson of Duluth talks about his relationship to King Harald V of Norway. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)

Duluth area man's royal connection to Norway king is family tree

King Harald V probably won't meet him today, but he has a distant cousin in Duluth.

news / state Mon, Oct 17, 2011 - 9:59am

Amateur Baseball: Norway Lake-Sunburg in 15C, Montevideo in 9C survive first weekend of regions

SPICER -- Norway Lake-Sunburg responded from a rough game Saturday by routing County Line League rival Atwater 16-0 Sunday in the loser's bracket of the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament...

sports Mon, Aug 08, 2011 - 12:00am

(Tribune photo by Rand Middleton)
Norway Lake-Sunburg Lakers second baseman Nate Schlagel tags out Atwater Chuckers' Justin Schroeder attempting to take second in the fifth inning on a play at the plate Sunday at Sunburg in the championship game of the County Line League Playoffs.

Amateur Baseball: Norway Lake-Sunburg wins County Line playoffs on infield single in 9th

SUNBURG -- Norway Lake-Sunburg completed an impressive march through the County Line League playoff bracket by nudging Atwater 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning on Sunday. Atwater already...

sports Mon, Aug 01, 2011 - 12:00am

Doc: Dum-dum bullets used in Norway

HONEFOSS, Norway (AP) -- The chief surgeon at a hospital treating victims of Norway's camp massacre says the killer used special bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause...

news / world Sun, Jul 24, 2011 - 12:27pm

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, left, embraces the leader of the Labour party's youth group Eskild Pedersen on Saturday at Stoltenberg as they visited survivors at a hotel in Sundvolden, Norway. Pedersen was on the island during the shooting attacks. The 32-year-old man suspected in the bomb and shooting attacks that killed at least 91 people in Norway bought six tons of fertilizer before the massacres, the supplier said Saturday as police investigated witness accounts of a second shooter. Norw...

Norway gunman fired for 1.5 hours on island

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A gunman who opened fire on an island teeming with young people kept shooting for 1.5 hours before surrendering to a SWAT team, which arrived 40...

news / world Sat, Jul 23, 2011 - 1:08pm

Norway Lake residents took matters into their own hands Tuesday as they persuaded the 'floating island' to return to its home on the other side of the lake. Up to 15 boats contributed to the effort. Submitted photo

Norway Lake bog on the move again

NEW LONDON -- With the state shutdown and no way of clearing a large piece of land floating in the water, Norway Lake residents decided to take matters into their...

news / local Thu, Jul 07, 2011 - 12:00am

A piece of a bog bounces Monday off some docks near Last Chance Bait and Grocery Store on Norway Lake. Tribune photo by TJ Jerke

Half-acre bog floats in Norway Lake

NEW LONDON -- Norway Lake has its first floating island. A piece of grassy land, or bog, once located in a marshy area in southwest Norway Lake, is now nestled...

news / local Tue, Jun 28, 2011 - 12:00am

One of the more dramatic examples of the shoreline damage experienced on Kandiyohi County lakes is seen on this 30-foot bluff on the Nest Lake, shown both from above the shoreline. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Restoring lost habitat

Some of the most valuable real estate in Kandiyohi County has taken a real beating. High water, saturated soils and a winter that produced big sheets of ice all added...

outdoors / local / region Sat, May 28, 2011 - 6:00am

SYTTENDE MAI: Minnesota native joins heralded choir in Norway, will sing to the nation today

When he was about 10 years old, Jared Lennon visited his grandfather on the family farm near Winger, Minn., a farm started in the 1880s by their Norwegian immigrant forebears.

news / state Tue, May 17, 2011 - 11:13am

Amateur baseball: Atwater blanks Starbuck in opener

STARBUCK -- Justin Schroeder and Brian Kingery combined on a four-hit shutout as the Atwater Chuckers opened the season with a 3-0 win over Starbuck in a County Line League...

sports Mon, May 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Norwegians officials prepare Duluth for royal treatment

Norwegian consulate and embassy officials from New York and Washington got their first look at Duluth on Thursday as they prepare for the visit of King Harald and Queen Sonja...

news / world Fri, Apr 01, 2011 - 10:40am