Christa Lawler
Duluth Reporter
Duluth/SuperiorBefore joining the Star Tribune in 2022, Christa Lawler was a sports reporter-turned-arts and entertainment reporter at the Duluth News Tribune. She started at the Rochester Post-Bulletin, her hometown newspaper, after graduating from the University of St. Thomas. She has lived in Duluth since 2000 and likes trail running, yoga, paddle boarding and reading.
Latest from Christa Lawler
Professor fired for not complying with COVID-19 vaccine mandate sues Walz, school leaders
The former Lake Superior College instructor said in a court filing that he refused to be coerced into something that “violates fundamental rights.”
April 15, 2025
Cheng-Khee Chee, globally renowned watercolorist from Duluth, dies at 92
Chee won hundreds of awards in his lifetime and is best known for illustrating “Old Turtle” by Douglas Wood.
April 11, 2025
How a small Minnesota town ‘seceded’ from the U.S.
“We will be similar to Monaco,” Kinney’s leaders said in the 1970s.
April 11, 2025
Minnesota high school dean extradited to Georgia, charged with ‘obscene internet contact with a child’
Christopher John Chad of Eveleth was arrested in mid-March and is now in Fulton County jail in Atlanta.
April 8, 2025
Duluth man gets prison for sexual conduct against young church-goers
Clint Massie pleaded guilty to acts against girls in his church, but violated the terms of his pre-sentencing release when he went to a funeral where children were present.
March 27, 2025
IRRRB picks new chair to replace Justin Eichorn, out after he resigned from Senate after arrest
Sen. Robert Farnsworth of Hibbing is new chair of the Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board.
March 26, 2025
Employee of Rock Ridge High School arrested on suspicion of ‘obscene internet conduct with a child’
The Eveleth man was arrested Tuesday by the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department and will be extradited to Georgia.
March 19, 2025
Fire contained at Iron Range explosives plant Dyno Nobel
A fire started near an exhaust fan at Dyno Nobel outside Biwabik, triggering a brief evacuation. The blaze did not affect “sensitive materials on site,” a spokesperson said.
March 18, 2025
Second suspect in ‘Wizard of Oz’ ruby slippers theft dies
Jerry Hal Saliterman, who died Sunday, was accused of keeping the shoes worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” buried in his backyard.
March 17, 2025
Searchers find Minnesota-bound freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1892
The Western Reserve was en route to Two Harbors when it was lost during an August storm, leaving only one survivor.
March 15, 2025
What’s best for the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame? Its home on the Range or a move to St. Paul?
The nonprofit’s board members are split: Some favor Iron Range tradition; others want more foot traffic.
March 13, 2025
Duluth teen with terminal cancer gets the party of her life, with hundreds of friends
Shimia Nord, 18, was told in January that she has weeks or months to live. Last weekend, classmates and friends celebrated her at a Halloween-themed early graduation party.
March 10, 2025
