Bemidji-stationed DNR Conservation Officer Hannah Mishler has been named the 2020 DNR Conservation Officer of the Year, an annual award given to an officer for outstanding overall career performance. Mishler has been a conservation officer since 2014, she is an arson investigator, and she and her K9 partner Storm are in the K9 Unit. Mishler…
A DNR Conservation Officer died in the line of duty after a crash near Grand Rapids Monday morning. Thirty-nine-year-old Sarah Grell is the 23rd state conservation officer to die in the line of duty in the department’s 134-year history. Grell was stationed in Grand Rapids and leaves behind a husband and three children. “The sense…
The Bemidji Police Department released camera footage from the night the Paul Bunyan statue got a broken arm. In the video, it appears four people were in the park, with two of them climbing separate arms. The pair continued to hang and climb on the statue before the right arm gave way, and the group…
