Blatnik Bridge Closure Impacts Businesses
In this week’s Knowing Your Neighbors we head out to Grand Rapids where one gallery is helping to frame the city.
Doctors urge the public to get a flu shot.
UMD’s budget deficit has grown smaller in recent years, but the school still wants to make nearly $2 million in cuts this semester.
Mental health and the way we deal with those suffering with mental disabilities have made many headlines recently.
While buildings begin to resurface after a deadly earthquake rocked parts of Italy, one local eatery is doing all it can to help out, from the Northland.
SUSPECT WAS APPREHENDED AROUND 8PM ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH
Two Minnesota brothers are keeping it all in the family at the Federal Duck Stamp art contest.
David Andrew Smithson, 27, of Duluth was sentenced Monday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of a controlled substance when his vehicle struck and killed pedestrian Brian Respler on Dec. 19, St. Louis County Attorney, Mark Rubin said.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Representative Rick Nolan, today announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded $374,598 to the St. Louis and Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority for railroad crossing safety in Duluth.
Minnesota’s Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge by Democrats to have Donald Trump removed from the ballot.
The next step in a two year project to re-align County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 5 west of Chisholm begins Monday, September 19. The segment of CSAH 5 from Trunk Highway (TH) 169 to CSAH 136 will be closed, and all traffic will be detoured into Chisholm via TH 169, TH 73, and CSAH 84. All vehicles traveling to Hibbing Taconite will need to enter from the north via CSAH 84.
A Minneapolis theater has filed a nearly $350,000 claim against Prince’s estate over a canceled gala at his Paisley Park recording complex.
In continuation with CN’s multi-year maintenance and strengthening project on the Oliver railroad bridge over the St. Louis River between Duluth, Minnesota and Oliver, Wisconsin, the west and east spans of the bridge will be replaced on September 14 and 29 respectively.
Gunnar Gronski and Gunner Johnson are both helping Superior to a successful season.
Minnesota residents will have more options than ever before to cast a ballot voting in the general election, making it more convenient for those who can’t make it to the polls November 8.
Nearly 1,000 pounds of twisted steel from the World Trade Center is now a part of a monument honoring veterans and first responders in a small central Minnesota city.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior and Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College announce a new articulation agreement in Early Childhood Education.
A mining company that hopes to build an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely is suing the federal government to try to keep the mineral rights leases it needs for the nearly $3 billion project to go forward.
A traffic switch will take place on the Blatnik Bridge on Wednesday September 14. The southbound lanes will reopen and both northbound lanes will close for approximately four weeks. One southbound lane will be open the entire length of the bridge and the other southbound lane will be open along the entire stretch of the bridge except on the center span.
The University of Minnesota opens a new multi-million dollar bee research facility next month.
A total of 514 people registered for the Grandma’s Minnesota Mile event which featured four separate divisions — Minnesota Mile (Elite), Duluth Mile (Semi-Elite), All City Mile (Recreational) and the Verizon Kids Mile.
This week it will be “Chili by the Lake” for the 25th Annual Head of the Lakes United Way Chili-Cook Off.
In Duluth, the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosted an observance for the 15th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
A Northland veteran’s memory is serving as the inspiration for auction fundraiser.
The local American Legion and Elks Lodge in Duluth held a benefit for veterans today.
Officials say seven students were treated for minor injuries after a school bus crash in St. Paul sent the bus into a house.
Officials from all around Virginia, Minnesota are fundraising to repair the Olcott park fountain.
Grand Rapids will break ground on a new $800,000 sports pavilion. It allows for more ice time for local skaters who have had to share the ice when tournaments come to town.
Brace yourself, because it’s national Teddy Bear Day!
The 10th annual Kia of Duluth Drag Race and Car Show will take over Garfield Avenue this weekend. Over 300 cars will compete.
Four new throw rings have been added at stations along the Park Point Beach in Duluth. The kits are located at 700 S. Lake Avenue, the Tot Lot, the Lafayette Community Center, and at the Park Point Beach House.
Historic plane visits the Twin Ports over the weekend. The plane from 1929 was one of the first of its kind to give transcontinental flights.
This month many Northlanders will be focusing on helping each other and sharing how you can prevent suicide.
Dakota Access pipeline protesters were happy to learn that federal authorities recommended construction on a 40-mile span in North Dakota be halted, despite a federal judge denying the Standing Rock Sioux’s broader request.
The memorial service for Jacob Wetterling will be held Sunday, Sept. 25, at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. The college announced the date on Friday on behalf of the Wetterling family. The service will begin at 10 a.m. on Sept. 25th. Other details will be announced later. Jacob was 11 when he was abducted near his home in the central Minnesota community of St. Joseph on Oct. 22, 1989. His disappearance haunted Minnesota for nearly 27 years. On Tuesday, 53-year-old Danny Heinrich, of Annandale, confessed in federal court that he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Jacob. Heinrich last week led authorities to the field in Paynesville where Jacob’s remains were recovered.
A Memphis woman who as an 18-year-old was accused of fatally stabbing her mother is fighting relatives for a $1.5 million inheritance, but her lawyer says her real goal is to prove her innocence.
The Duluth Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Level III Predatory Offender, Delton Roy Misquadace.
On Wednesday September 7, 2016, the Boundary Waters Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, along with assistance from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office and Carlton County K9 arrested Whitney Perkovich.
The judge ordered that Dassey be released within 90 days, unless prosecutors appealed or retried him.
It might be time to reconsider the five-second rule when thinking about eating food that you dropped on the floor.
Some Northland nurses are now officially working under a new contract, after five months of negotiations.
A federal judge is set to deliver a key ruling on the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline that has drawn thousands of protesters to a construction site in North Dakota, some coming form as far as New York and Alaska.
The University of Minnesota’s athletic department announced Thursday that they will honor Jacob Wetterling and grant the request of the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center and the Wetterling family by using the Number 11 in multiple ways on Saturday.
The Duluth Transit Authorities (DTA) Grocery Express will provide service on Saturdays and Tuesdays to the West Duluth Super One beginning September 10, 2016. The Saturday Schedule will run from 10:06 a.m. to 1:37 p.m. This is in addition to the service on Tuesdays that runs from 11:16 a.m. to 3:57 p.m.
A premier class of one-mile runners is assembled for Sunday’s Minnesota Mile in downtown Duluth.
One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill their classmate to please horror character, Slender Man, has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
A warmer Lake Superior could improve the chances of catching salmon and other species as well as provide benefits for the Great Lakes shipping industry.
Garfield Avenue in Duluth will close at 6 a.m., Saturday, September 10 and will reopen at 6 p.m., Sunday, September 11. Garfield Avenue is being closed during this time for the KIA Drag Races and Car Show.
