Northland Experiences Special Ed Teacher Shortage
School Districts Struggle To Fill Positions
As the students and teachers head back to class there’s one type of job in particular has become very difficult to fill.
On September 19, 2016 at around 6:30 p.m., the Bayfield County Communications Center received a call reporting a vehicle rollover with one person lying outside of the vehicle and one person still in the vehicle on Yderstad Road in the Township of Kelly. The vehicle was reported to have extensive damage.
Itasca County Attorney John J. Muhar reports on September 20, 2016, Triston Michael Corwin, appeared in Itasca county District court in connection with one count of felony Theft of a Motor Vehicle, one count of felony Unauthorized use of a Motor Vehicle, one count of felony Fleeing a Peace Officer in Motor Vehicle, one count of misdemeanor Driving While Impaired, and one count of misdemeanor Fleeing a Peace Officer on foot.
Gov. Scott Walker is taking the unusual step of sending a public letter to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos encouraging the fellow Republican to work on finding a solution to roads funding.
Lt. Governor Tina Smith and the Minnesota Department of Administration today announced a new partnership with Xcel Energy called the Renewable*Connect Government Pilot Program.
Minnesota Republicans are criticizing Governor Mark Dayton for authorizing nearly $80,000 in severance payments to three top officials who resigned from his administration.
The killing of a North Dakota State University student from central Minnesota remains a mystery two years later.
Wisconsin’s Controlled Substance Board has outlawed a synthetic opioid known as U-47700.
Some residents of a small community south of the Twin Cities say one business owner’s sign is giving the city a bad name.
A five-year, $1.12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, will allow community members who qualify in St. Louis, Douglas, Carlton Counties will have free access to services designed to help them reach a better life through college training and education.
A northwestern Minnesota American Indian tribe will use part of a $13 million federal loan to help fight drug abuse.
More than 120 snowplow operators from the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the city of Minneapolis are training the next two weeks at Camp Ripley near Little Falls to learn how to handle the winter ahead.
Fans get crazy and snap up tickets for next month’s tribute concert in a matter of minutes.
Governor Scott Walker has asked for a USDA Secretarial Disaster Designation to help farmers in three Wisconsin counties that suffered crop losses as a result of heavy rains and flooding July.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Representative Rick Nolan, announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Ely Municipal Airport a grand of $2,836,567 for infrastructure improvements.
Authorities are searching Lake Superior for three boaters, including a 9-year-old boy and his father who did not return from a fishing trip in the vicinity of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Early in-person voting is underway in Wisconsin.
Minnesota health officials say the number of cases of Legionnaire’s disease associated with an outbreak in Hopkins continues to grow.
The Hibbing Police Department will be conducting a Level Three Predatory Offender Notification Meeting on Thursday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m. in the Little Theater located on the lower level of Hibbing Memorial Building.
At around 8:00 P.M. Saturday September 17th, the Bayfield County 911 center received a report of a ATV accident on Komborski Road in the Town of Bayview.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Chisago County.
At the newly built Northwest Wisconsin Cancer Center of Memorial Medical Center (NWCC) in Ashland, Wisconsin, a salon-style wig room is giving chemotherapy patients a new look and a boost of self-confidence when going through treatments.
Minnesota Governor, Mark Dayton plans to travel to St. Cloud, to meet with city officials about the weekend stabbing at a local mall. The incident is currently being investigated as a potential act of terrorism.
As the students and teachers head back to class there’s one type of job in particular has become very difficult to fill.
An FBI official says investigators are viewing an attack at a Minnesota mall in which a man stabbed nine people as a possible act of terrorism.
On Friday, September 16, 2016, at approximately 2:34 p.m. a black dump truck was southbound on Midway Road approaching Maple Grove Road.
St. Louis County Sheriff’s Deputies engaged in a vehicle pursuit after a vehicle with no license plate was observed traveling in excess of 90 miles an hour westbound along Martin Road Thursday evening.
More details have been set for the public memorial service for Jacob Wetterling.
Vikre Distillery in Canal Park, was recently nominated for “Best Craft Specialty Spirits Distillery” by USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice 2016.
Police say they’ve caught up with a North Carolina woman wanted after her mother’s corpse was found in a freezer sold at a yard sale.
Oklahoma prison officials say officers discovered a false wall with an “escape hatch” inside a halfway house that holds prisoners who are nearing the end of their sentences.
Minnesota health officials are investigating several possible sources of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins.
Wisconsin health officials are asking Governor Scott Walker to increase Medicaid spending by $452 million in the upcoming state budget.
More than 1,000 officers in the Twin Cities area are training on how best to handle demonstrators in the wake of a fatal shooting of a black man by St. Anthony police in Falcon Heights.
UPS says it’s hiring about 1,260 people in the Twin Cities area as it gears up for holiday shipping.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, around 9:30 a.m., the Eveleth Police Department and other units were dispatched to 509 Polk Avenue regarding a male and female found down on the garage floor.
Motorists are urged to use extra caution this weekend along the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers as thousands of motorcyclists take to the road for the Fall Flood Run.
For this week’s Active Adventures we focused on getting ready for hunting season.
Earlier this year, Duluth mayor Emily Larson called on kids in the community to send her their artwork, and to include their hopes and concerns for the city.
The party helps, promote, and support healthy kids and bully free message. Raleigh Academy is a school focused on academics, character education, bully prevention, and overall health well being of our students.
HTC supporters filled the Greysolon Ballroom hoping to get their hands on some of the silent auction item’s up for bid. They hosted the event to raise money for the multiple services they provide the community.
17-year-old, Pedro Jeremias Chel Cobo, was last seen Sunday September 11, 2016. On Wednesday, family reported to Law Enforcement that Pedro has been missing.
Police say a man with a meat cleaver attacked an officer in New York City.
Duluth Police Violent Crimes Investigators continue to follow up on leads on missing person Sheila Lou St. Clair, who was reported missing on September 10, 2015.
Researchers have identified lightning bolts in Oklahoma and France as the longest on record and warn that their discovery could alter traditional thinking on when it’s safe to go outside after a storm has passed.
Three shipwreck hunters’ six-year search of Lake Superior for a 1800s schooner barge has ended successfully.
Two people in western Michigan’s Kent County have tested positive for the West Nile virus.
Minnesota’s unemployment rate is ticking up as the state sheds jobs.
U.S. Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar said they worked to pass a major water infrastructure bill in the Senate on Thursday because it not only creates jobs, modernizes community water systems, and makes the nation’s waterways more navigable, but it will also bolster investment in clean drinking water and in efforts to replace dangerous lead pipes.
Governor Scott Walker is defending his administration’s road-funding proposal.
Some religious groups are meeting in bars as a way to recruit new members, reach out to people struggling with their faith and provide a different outlet to talk about God.