Graduating from Forest Lake Area High School isn’t a requirement to be police chief of the city, but it certainly does seem to help. Capt. Luke Hanegraaf, 46, grew up in Forest Lake and graduated ...

Forest Lake now has four new members of its police department, two were filling open positions, the other two as the city implements its expansion of the police department after ...

FOREST LAKE, Minn. - The raging debate over the fate of the Forest Lake Police Department will continue for at least one more week, after the city council tabled a vote on whether to dissolve the ...

The Forest Lake Police Department received a call Feb. 3 just after 10 a.m. that wasn’t exactly something they were expecting. A resident called for help after a deer was stuck in their hammock. Boday ...

Forest Lake police officers had to spring into action after a deer got stuck in a hammock last week. Body cameras captured the events on the morning of Feb. 3. Officers used a makeshift knife to cut ...