How Trump’s education cuts could hurt Minnesota’s most vulnerable students
As Trump dismantles the Department of Education, “a lot of districts are reeling,” even in areas that supported him.
July 17, 2025
Minnesota adventurer sails thousands of miles from Grand Marais to Greenland
Lonnie Dupre and his crew left in early April for his latest Arctic expedition, but the trip continues.
July 17, 2025
Train linking Twin Cities, Duluth in doubt as D.C. Republicans yank money for passenger rail
A GOP-backed measure moving through Congress also would gut funding for a federal grant program the Metropolitan Council is counting on for a planned extension of the Blue Line light-rail project and a planned bus rapid transit line.
July 16, 2025
Northeastern Minnesota rail town getting its first major development since the 1940s
The scale of the project in the city of 3,000 people amounts to a new neighborhood.
July 16, 2025
Man fatally shot by pursuing deputies near Duluth after he allegedly set homes on fire
The incidents unfolded in a rural area between Duluth and Two Harbors.
July 15, 2025
Duluth’s federal prison to remain open, months after Biden administration put it on closure list
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in December the minimum-security prison was among seven across the country to be deactivated.
July 15, 2025
Duluth couple's new spy novel, 'Codebreaker,' has readers playing along
Andy Bennett and Katy Helbacka, writing under the name Jay Martel, created the interactive thriller "Codebreaker," complete with solvable codes and ciphers.
July 15, 2025
CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos
The grain terminal can hold 18 million bushels and accounts for 70% of the region’s grain volume.
July 11, 2025
Duluth EPA lab employees put on leave after signing dissent letter
Several employees signed letter, which decried EPA’s direction under Trump.
July 11, 2025
Acrobatic high divers plunge 70 feet into Duluth Harbor, set against backdrop of Tall Ships
Nearly a dozen divers completed practice rounds for the Superior High Dive Challenge on Thursday during the Festival of Sail.
July 10, 2025
Duluth City Council president barred from coffee shop after confronting employee
Terese Tomanek allegedly told an employee as he was working that she was “disturbed” by something he’d posted online related to a controversial tenants rights ballot measure.
July 10, 2025
Man ID’d after he drowned in Tettegouche State Park waterfall on Fourth of July
The 25-year-old Kansas man was with a group when he went under in deep water at Illgen Falls, Lake County authorities say.
July 8, 2025
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