Three American Rescue Plan Act grant applications were approved for Pine River-Backus Schools, Immanuel Lutheran Church and School and the Federal Dam Volunteer Fire Department.
LEADER--The Soo Line Trail bridge at Federal Dam will be replaced in the location it always has been, Cass County commissioners decided Tuesday, June 18.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, continues managing its reservoirs to reduce flood threats to communities in the Upper Midwest, including several in central and north-central Minnesota.
WALKER--Cass County received a Minnesota Department of Transportation grant enabling the county to install a new box culvert bridge over a tributary to Home Brook in Homebrook Township in 2019.
BACKUS--An arson fire that burned the Soo Line Trail bridge at Federal Dam Sept. 6 could lead to replacing it with a new bridge with many more uses. Land Commissioner Kirk Titus informed Cass County commissioners at their Tuesday, Nov. 20, meetin...
FEDERAL DAM--The Soo Line bridge crossing the Leech Lake River in Federal Dam was damaged by fire Thursday, Sept. 6, and is closed. The Cass County Sheriff's Office received a call at 1:01 a.m. of a fire in the city of Federal Dam. Deputies and t...
PINE RIVER--Nine counties attending a district Association of Minnesota Counties meeting Sept. 15 to set policies to bring to the state Legislature in 2017 voted unanimously to support Cass County's position on two issues, Administrator Robert Yo...
FEDERAL DAM--A 49-year-old woman died Monday when the Ford Winstar van she was driving left the roadway striking several trees on Cass County Road 8 in Gould Township, south of Federal Dam.
U. S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger on Wednesday announced the sentencing of Rex Lee Furman, 53, Federal Dam, to life in prison for preying on children both online and in-person.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Supreme Court is set to welcome its first American Indian member, who will give the court its second female majority. Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday announced his appointment of Anne K. McKeig, who has been a Hennepin County...
