Jana Hollingsworth
Duluth Reporter
Duluth/SuperiorJana Hollingsworth spent more than a dozen years covering education and Native American issues for the Duluth News Tribune. She began her journalism career with the University of St. Thomas campus newspaper, the Aquin, and has also worked for the Superior Daily Telegram. She grew up in Proctor, Minn., and lives in Duluth with her husband and daughter.
Latest from Jana Hollingsworth
Do you sweat while you drive? UMD researchers say stress affects your decisions behind the wheel.
Stress and other emotions take a toll on driving behavior just like alcohol and sleepiness, they say.
April 10, 2025
Anxiety increases over possibility that Duluth EPA Great Lakes lab could close
Klobuchar, Smith send letter to EPA administrator as doubt mounts that the lab’s 170 jobs are safe.
April 10, 2025
Evicted tenants of Minnesota trailers deemed unsafe for human life settle with owner
The Maple Field trailer park in Hermantown is expected to close.
April 8, 2025
Thousands of Minnesotans rally against Trump in nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest
Protesters mobilized in St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester and dozens of other locations to oppose “assault on our freedoms.”
April 5, 2025
Indigenous activists clash with Minnesota GOP legislators over wild rice rights
Religion, protecting the unborn and rights for a plant are debated in environmental committee hearing.
April 4, 2025
Trump’s order to gut community-building program ‘existential threat’ to Minnesota lenders
A March 14 executive order halts spending to a Treasury Department program supported by Republicans and Democrats.
April 4, 2025
Duluth mayor pushes downtown living
But work remains to make the area livable, Mayor Roger Reinert said in his state of the city address, where he also warned of possible property tax hikes.
March 26, 2025
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Allete meets tough hometown crowd over pending sale of Duluth company
The potential $6.2 billion sale, which includes Minnesota Power, would take it private.
March 25, 2025
‘Incredibly inequitable’: Schools surrounding Minnesota’s cabin country homes struggle as taxes go to state
A long-ago shift of a portion of seasonal home property taxes away from schools is messing with communities, says Sen. Grant Hauschild, who has introduced legislation to replace a portion of the taxes.
March 21, 2025
More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs
Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest iron ore operator in Minnesota, is idling operations in Hibbing and Virginia.
March 20, 2025
Duluth airport generated more than $200 million in 2024
A University of Minnesota Duluth analysis found that its economic output surpassed $1.2 billion.
March 20, 2025
For Anishinaabe musher, the sport connects him to the outdoors, his past and those dogs
Jesse Terry was the only Anishinaabe man in the 40th running of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon this month. In this race, named for an Anishinaabe man, Terry knows he’s representing his culture.
March 14, 2025
