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
Minneapolis novelist Peter Geye will discuss ‘A Lesser Light’ with Kerri Miller for Talking Volumes
The Duluth event, co-sponsored by MPR News and the Minnesota Star Tribune, will introduce readers to characters who manage a lighthouse on the North Shore in 1910.
April 10, 2025
Minnesota Arctic adventurer setting sail from Grand Marais to Greenland
Lonnie Dupre, his partner and a rotating crew will attempt a 6,000-mile journey on a 36-foot boat.
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
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
Tolkkinen: Rural Minnesota showed up for Hands Off protests on Saturday. What does it mean?
Some research shows that protests can be powerful, depending on their size, and can help predict voting behavior. 
AuthoredKaren Tolkkinen
AuthoredKaren TolkkinenApril 9, 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
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
Minnesota indie-rock hero Alan Sparhawk is still finding his path after Low
The renowned Duluth singer has re-emerged from the loss of his wife and bandmate with two very different solo albums.
April 8, 2025
Here’s special elections results for nearly $200 million in school bonds
Mixed results in votes in Nevis, Osakis, Pequot Lakes and Pine River-Backus and St. Cloud.
April 7, 2025
