DULUTH, Minn. – The Duluth Transit Authority is looking at offering what’s called “Rapid Bus Transit” which they tell us offers many of the economic benefits of rail service at a much lower cost. Officials say a good corridor exists for the faster bus line on Grand Avenue and Michigan Street in West Duluth, through downtown, and to the University…
DULUTH, Minn. – University Nursery School has opened a new location in the Jefferson Square building on East Third Street. The new spot will allow staff to educate forty-eight infants, fifty-five toddlers, and seventy-two pre-schoolers. The child care center is now accepting applications. They’re hoping to fill the big space with kids having fun. “Duluth has long winters and now…
DULUTH, Minn. – 30-year-old Darrel Mayhew of Duluth has been officially charged with three felonies in the violent attack of a 70-year-old man taking a nap in his Park Point home. That man is Larry Watczak who continues to fight for his life in a coma since the January 2nd attack to his head. Mayhew is facing First Degree Assault,…
DULUTH, Minn. –Â “The behavior and what you saw here does not represent the best of us and as a result I felt very strongly, I do feel very strongly that when you betray public trust that we cannot in this day and age in law enforcement tolerate that behavior,” said Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken during a press conference on…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign has wrapped up for the season. In the greater Duluth area, the Salvation Army raised about ten percent more money than last year. In total, they took in about $260,000, just short of their $300,000 goal. Officials were impressed with how many people helped during the campaign. They got about a…
DULUTH, Minn. – St. Louis County Attorney, Mark Rubin, was sworn in for his third term in office on Wednesday. Rubin has been the County Attorney since 2011. He has worked for St. Louis County since 1978. He looks forward to following through with the nationwide civil opioid lawsuit St. Louis County is a part of. Rubin discussed the decision…
DULUTH, Minn. – On Monday night, a man was pulled from a ravine along Kingsbury Creek near the Lake Superior Zoo. A man was hiking with his wife and dogs along the Superior Hiking Trail when he passed a man experiencing homelessness in a sleeping bag in a ravine. He contacted police and led them to the location where he…
DULUTH, Minn. – There was a potential threat on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus Tuesday night. It all started with a 911 call reporting a man making suicidal threats who may have had a gun. The suspect was arrested Monday night near the Marshall Alworth Planetarium at UMD about thirty minutes after the initial 911 call. Turns out the…
ONTANAGON, Mich. – A man is dead after his car crashed into a snow plow truck in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Authroities in Ontanagon County, Michigan, have identified the man as 48-year-old Darren Tuomi of White Pine. Police say his Volkswagen Golf rear-ended a county truck Saturday night on M-64. The sheriff’s department believes speed and alcohol may have been factors…
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DULUTH, Minn. – All the recent snow is a very welcome sight for cross country skiers. Staff at the Snowflake Nordic Ski Center in Duluth spent hours Thursday morning compacting the snow on their trails to make it ski-able. They tell us each trail was compacted multiple times. In total, staff went over more than seventy kilometers of snow on…
DULUTH, Minn. – After about thirty years working as an operator on Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge, Paul Thomas is worked his last shift Thursday, December 27th. To celebrate his career, members of his family walked the bridge with signs encouraging passing drivers to honk for Paul. They say today is bittersweet. They’re happy for Paul but they will miss having…
DULUTH, Minn. – December 26th is the busiest day of the year at Chester Bowl. Kids are filling the slopes for the park’s annual ski and snowboard camp. Free lessons are offered to anyone who shows up. Kids just need to bring their gear and purchase a Chester Bowl pass. “All these kids are outside playing, they’re getting out and…
DULUTH, Minn. – Now that Christmas is over it’s time for families to recycle their trees. There are multiple tree collection sites in the city of Duluth. Trees and other organic waste are banned from Minnesota landfills. The disposal sites are a way to ensure the trees are used for good purposes after the holidays. “We try to make use…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Essentia Health Duluth Heritage Center announced their holiday skating hours for the rest of this week. The rink will be open Thursday and Friday morning from 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Organizers say it’s a chance for local skaters to take advantage of the earlier times to hit the ice. “Parks and recreation offers these daytime…
ELY, Minn. – A snowmobiler has been found dead after her snowmobile broke through thin ice near Ely. Officials are still searching for a man who was believed to be with her. 60-year-old Debbie Senarighi of Cloquet was found dead in the water on White Iron Lake southeast of Ely. Monday it was reported that 60-year-old Kenneth Wildenaur of Cloquet…
DULUTH, Minn. – Christmas Eve dinner is being served Monday at the VFW hall in Duluth. To make the annual event happen, volunteers are busy preparing forty-four turkeys, two hundred pounds of potatoes, and two hundred pounds of sweet potatoes. Organizers say they’ve served as many as five-hundred-seventy visitors in past years. “It helps people that don’t have anywhere to…
DULUTH, Minn. – A robbery was reported Friday afternoon at the Affinity Plus Credit Union on Miller Trunk Highway in Duluth. According to the Duluth Police Department, just after 4 p.m., a person presented a note to the bank teller claiming to have a gun. No gun was seen and the person left with an undisclosed amount of money. A…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Gas prices across the country are at their lowest point in years. One gas station in Superior was selling gas for $1.75 per gallon on Thursday. The SuperAmerica on Hammond Avenue had a line of cars waiting to get the low fuel price. The manager there tells us she changed the sign to read $2.19 because it…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – A new hotel is expected to be built on North Tower Avenue. Business leaders are excited about what it could mean for the city. Multiple city officials with close knowledge of the project have confirmed that a new hotel is being planned in Superior at the location where the historic Palace Theater once stood. We are told…
DULUTH, Minn. – Rubber Chicken Theater is presenting their tenth anniversary holiday revue starting this Friday night. The ‘Wisecracker Suite’ is full of local sketch comedy and laughs for everybody in the audience. The show makes fun of local and regional news. The director describes it as a local Saturday Night Live. “These are all local folks, talented writers and…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – The City of Superior has officially moved on from the failed Kestrel Project. The proposed airplane manufacturing company was supposed to bring a big economic boom to the city and create hundreds of permanent jobs but the business never came. The Superior City Council voted unanimously to dissolve a Tax Increment Financing District they created for the…
DULUTH, Minn. – The last saltie of the season shipped out of the port of Duluth-Superior Saturday. The Federal Rhine departed Saturday afternoon. According to the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, the 2018 shipping season has been a strong one both with shipments of grain and iron ore cargoes. “When we look back about five or six years we average about…
DULUTH, Minn. – Canal Park was packed full of families enjoying the unseasonably warm conditions. Sunny skies and warm temperatures made for a great December day to be outside, that is, for those who don’t miss the snow too much. Olivia was asked why she misses the snow and responded, “Cause you get to make snowmans and forts in the…
DULUTH, Minn. – Canal Park Brewing in Duluth is partnering with about a thousand other breweries across the country to raise funds for the victims of the Camp Fire in California. They’re now brewing the Resilience IPA, a special beer recipe from Sierra Nevada Brewing. It will be available mid-January on tap and in growlers. One hundred percent of the…
DULUTH, Minn. – The deadline is fast approaching to enroll in health care coverage through MNsure. Saturday, December 15th, is the last day to sign up for coverage that starts on January 1st. Enrollment will remain open until January 13th, but if Minnesotans sign up after December 15th, their coverage will not start until February 2nd. The MNsure CEO tells…
DULUTH, Minn. – Three local women recently completed a program through SOAR Career Solutions and Lake Superior College where they learned job skills in machine operation. The three women graduated in a special ceremony at Duluth City Hall. Their program was created under the Women’s Economic Security Act to train more women in non-traditional career fields. “It’s not just me…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force recently got a federal grant that will help them fight opioid addiction in the Northland and save a lot of lives. The two-year grant will provide Narcan for regional law enforcement and EMS staff. Narcan is a drug that can help reverse an opioid overdose. The grant also…
DULUTH, Minn. – Nordic ski trail conditions are not what many skiers hoped for. The Snowflake Nordic Center in Duluth has about 95% snow coverage on their trails but they’d like to be 100%. The manager there tells us hard-core skiers are out but more snow is needed for the season to really take off. “Ideally I’d like to get…
DULUTH, Minn. – A meeting about the future of the Mission Creek highway and bridge project became a heated conversation. The MnDOT project was put on hold in June 2017 after human remains were found at the construction site from a nearby Native American cemetery. Members of the Fond du Lac Band were at the update meeting at the Gary-New…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Safety day was held in Superior. The day-long conference is a chance for business and community leaders to learn about safety and health topics. Sixty-five attendees came together at WITC in Superior for the event. They learned about everything from mine safety to electrical hazards to violence in the workplace. The Lake Superior Safety Council puts on…
DULUTH, Minn. – Duluth Mayor Emily Larson has proposed the city spend about $12 million from the tourism tax for 2019 attractions. That’s four percent more than was spent this year or last year. From January through October, the tourism tax has collected about 4.3 percent more than at this time in the previous year. Mayor Larson asked attractions to…
DULUTH, Minn. – Losing a child is something no parent wants to go through but many have. A candlelight vigil was held at Leif Erickson Park in Duluth, bringing together those parents who have lost children. The annual vigil is sponsored by the nationwide “Angel of Hope” organization. The group provides a support network for grieving parents to share their…
DULUTH, Minn. – The search is on for a pair of grinches that created $2,500 in damage at Bentleyville Tour of Lights. They were caught in the act on security cameras. On Tuesday night, a door to the food and toy area was broken into. Bentleyville officials though it was a one-time incident but the vandals were back on Wednesday…
DULUTH, Minn. – Thirty-six ice fishermen and their equipment were stranded on St. Louis Bay after strong northeastern winds created a crack in the ice with open water. At about 10:40 a.m. Saturday, officials removed thirty-five fishermen and their equipment using a ladder, three rapid deployment craft, and a boat from four locations between Duluth Rowing Club and Sky Harbor…
BEMIDJI, Minn. – New details have been released about an officer involved shooting in Bemidji on Wednesday. 34-year-old Andrew John May of Rice Lake has been identified as the suspect shot and killed by law enforcement. The two officers who discharged their firearms are Deputy Brandon Newhouse of the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office and Officer Bidal Duran of the Bemidji…
DULUTH, Minn. – A local musician and brother of former Duluth Mayor Don Ness got some support Thursday night. Jamie Ness was stuck with major dental bills after he fell off a ladder on the job and lost many of his top front teeth. The accident happened last month as Ness was painting a house. Thursday night, family and friends…
DULUTH, Minn. – Baristas threw down Thursday night, competing for the title, “Prettiest Late in Duluth.” The throwdown at Duluth Coffee Company was the first-ever in the Twin Ports. Coffee makers steamed milk to the perfect texture and threw it into espresso mugs, trying to make the most artistic design possible. “Baristas often just stand behind the counter and they…
DULUTH, Minn. – Lake Superior College may soon have student housing right next to their main campus for the first time ever. College officials are working with a private developer to build up to three-hundred units of efficiency-style apartments right across the parking lot from their main campus on Trinity Road. Most of the land where the proposed development would…
DULUTH, Minn. – Some excitement at Bentleyville on Wednesday night as TV crews were seen at the entrance of the largest holiday lighting display in North America. A network TV show was shooting an episode at Bentleyville. We’ve been told we can’t tell you what the show or the network is before December 10th, but we can share that Duluthians…
DULUTH, Minn. – Now is the time to get outdoors gear ready for the winter season. Stocking up on warm base layers is a good place to start before going outside according to employees at Continental Ski and Bike in Duluth. They tell us if customers have gone more than three years since updating bikes or skis, now is the…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Northland Foundation has given more than $8,000 to local projects this fall through their “Youth in Philanthropy” program. The program has a foundation board made up of fifteen kids in 7th through 12th grade. The kids receive grant applications from other kids and discuss how to best spend $25,000 per year from the Northland Foundation. “They…
DULUTH, Minn. – The once crumbling seawall in Duluth’s Minnesota Slip is now replaced. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has wrapped up its part of the complicated project. Meanwhile, the city’s price tag is now over budget at a total of $950,000 and the effects of not getting the job done before the summer tourism season have become quite clear…
DULUTH, Minn. – The annual winter art sale at the American Indian Community Housing Organization in Duluth brought together more than twenty-five artists. The sale caters to mostly indigenous local artists and offers a wide variety of creations like scarves, dolls, gifts, and original artwork. “There was a guy who was selling pine cones made out of feathers which was…
DULUTH, Minn. – Wasabi Restaurant is now open on East Superior Street in Downtown Duluth. The Japanese restaurant offers twenty-dollar all you can eat sushi, just like their other location on Tower Avenue in Superior. New for the new store, Wasabi has added a Poke Bowl to the menu. It’s basically sushi on the go. They have several signature bowls…
DULUTH, Minn. – Early Friday morning, a vehicle crashed through one of the gates at the Duluth International Airport and was on airport grounds. A suspect, 36-year-old Christopher Lee Dunker of Duluth was stopped by police and taken into custody. He is now in the St. Louis County Jail and is being charged with 1st Degree Criminal Damage to Property,…
CLOQUET, Minn. – The Disabled American Veterans organization hosted a free Thanksgiving dinner at the Zion Lutheran Church in Cloquet. They hoped to serve about three-hundred at the meal and deliver another two-hundred take out orders. Since the DECC stopped providing satellite Thanksgiving feasts, the Disabled Veterans thought one was needed in Cloquet. “It’s very important because we can’t expect…
DULUTH, Minn. – Vikre Distillery is celebrating the release of their Sugarbush Whiskey, again. The sixth lot of the sweet, bourbon-style, maple flavored whiskey was launched Wednesday. It takes Vikre about two years to make each three-hundred gallon lot. They say each batch tastes a little different. “For us because we’re talking about maybe five or six barrels at a…
DULUTH, Minn. – For the third year in a row, the Iron Mug in Morgan Park is planning a toy drive. This year, they’re hoping to collect enough money and toys to serve about five-hundred kids through the “Make Every Child Smile” toy drive. The drive aims to help families who experienced hardships after the deadline to register for other…
