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WOODBURY, Minn. — A 20-year-old man has been found guilty of numerous felony charges related to a fatal graduation party shooting back in 2021. A Washington County jury found Xavier Hudson guilty of 10 charges, including aiding and abetting murder in the second degree, for his role in the killing of 14-year-old Demaris Ekdahl.

Anyone who attended or taught at a rural school in Washington County is invited to attend the second-annual Washington County Rural School Reunion on Saturday at the Hay Lake School Museum in Scandia. The reunion, which will be from noon to 4 p.m., “is for anyone who attended a one-room/two-room...

The Washington County Historical Society is excited to announce a Washington County Rural School Reunion for anyone who attended a one-room or two-room school anywhere in the county. Washington County had 79 rural school districts and one joint district with Chisago County. These districts were slowly consolidated during the 1940s...

The victim has been identified as a resident of Woodbury.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Minn. — A man was killed Friday night after losing control of his motorcycle near Lakeland. Minnesota State Troopers said 25-year-old Jacob A. Boldenow was riding west on I-94 in Washington County near the Wisconsin border just before 5 p.m. Friday. According to officials, Boldenow was changing...

(FOX 9) - A motorcyclist in Washington County and a driver in Kittson County were killed in separate crashes on Friday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Troopers responded to a reported crash in Washington County just before 5 p.m. on Sept. 15 near the border of Wisconsin. The crash report indicates a 25-year-old motorcyclist was heading westbound on Interstate 94 and changed lanes at St. Croix Trail when he lost control.

Hazel Gronquist had a difficult task: continue a tradition that was started by a local legend. That legend was Anna Engquist, who not only was the director of a small, one-room brick school house in Scandia but who also wrote the book on that community’s history. After Engquist retired...

Last spring, the Manitou Fund stepped in to save River Grove elementary school after it lost its lease at Wilder Forest in northern Washington County. The White Bear Lake-based fund purchased the Zephyr Theatre building in downtown Stillwater for $2.5 million in June and submitted a plan to overhaul the property to make it suitable for an interim home for the school.

The first crash occurred in Lakeland, while the second occurred in northwestern Minnesota

As soon as Hassan Sahouani heard the news about an earthquake hitting his native country of Morocco, he called his sister in Marrakech. Jamila Sahouani immediately began sending videos of the damage caused by the 6.8-magnitude quake. At least 2,900 people are reported to have died in the Sept. 8 earthquake, but the death toll continues to rise as search and rescue teams comb through mountains of rubble.

A motorcyclist veered off Interstate 94 just inside Minnesota from the Wisconsin border, crashed and died, officials said. The wrecked occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Friday along I-94 in Lakeland, the State Patrol said. Jacob Alexander Boldenow, 25, of Woodbury was heading west on the interstate, lost control of his...

The Washington County Board on Tuesday unanimously approved its maximum property tax levy – the upper limit of what the county can collect in property taxes for 2024. Although the $132.7 million tax levy is a 3.95 percent increase over 2023, county officials said the county tax rate is actually set to decrease by 7.3 percent. That’s because of the growing value of commercial property in the county and the addition of new construction to the county’s tax base.

A Washington County judge will decide whether a Woodbury woman is not guilty by reason of mental illness in an attack on her two young children, one of whom later died, in 2021. In the first phase of a bifurcated trial, Judge Douglas Meslow this month found Sadiyo Ibrahim Mohamed,...

WOODBURY, Minn. (FOX 9) - Washington County is hosting a costume swap, where people can donate children's costumes and shop for different ones — for free. The public is invited to drop off clean, gently used children's costumes at the Environmental Center, 4039 Cottage Grove Drive, in Woodbury between Sept. 12 and Oct. 10.

The Washington County Historical Society is excited to announce that wrestling historian and author George Schire will be returning to the Washington County Heritage Center on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. Schire’s book, “Minnesota’s Golden Age of Wrestling: From Verne Gagne to the Road Warriors,” will be available for purchase at the talk. Longtime wrestling fans and newcomers are welcome!

The Washington County Historical Society is excited to announce not one, but two upcoming programs about White Bear Lake’s notorious gangsters, presented by White Bear Lake Area Historical Society’s executive director, Sara Hanson. The days of prohibition created the notorious rum-runners and other gangsters that terrorized the country...

After working for more than a year to buy land and build a Catholic summer youth camp in northern Washington County, the Minnesota Catholic Youth Partnership has withdrawn its offer to purchase the 600-acre Wilder Forest. “Our decision was in response to difficulty obtaining local approvals for the camp based...

A plan to build a Catholic youth camp in northern Washington County fell apart Monday after prompting vocal opposition from local residents, including at a special town board meeting held Thursday. The public's "ongoing misinformation campaign" made it difficult to obtain local approvals, a spokesman for the Minnesota Catholic Youth...

September is a busy month: as Washington County declared it to be National Preparedness Month, Stillwater city council acknowledged September as National Suicide Prevention and Action Month, Stillwater Public Library recognized it as Library Card Sign-up Month, Sustainable Stillwater and similar organizations are observing it as one of several Lights Out Months, and another foundation stated that it is blood cancer awareness month and Walk for Waldenstrom’s month.

The annual Washington County Bluegrass Festival is FREE to all – just pay for parking! It takes place at Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Are you trying to decide what your weekend plans with be? The 20th annual Washington County Bluegrass Festival takes place Saturday, September 9 from 2 – 6 pm.