mental health

After Saturday, anyone can dial 988 to reach a trained crisis counselor to help them wherever they live.

Evan has carried a canoe over 300 miles across Minnesota, all to raise mental health awareness and to help with suicide prevention.

The community of Albert Lea is rallying around one another, like elephants in the wild leaning up against those hurting and too tired to stand, simply to support one another, and beginning to have the conversation that for many is taboo. That conversation is mental health.

The first Depression Awareness 5K run will take place Saturday, May 21 in Blooming Prairie. It will be run in memory and honor of Alex Jorgenson, who was a suicide victim. High school sophomore Rylee Fawver said the idea came about as the result of a history final project...