Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Wednesday, February 16, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Headlines, Ken Slama, Local News, midday update, News, weather
DULUTH, Minn. – The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many to adopt animals, but the amount of veterinary staff in the Northland has remained the same. Dr. Christine Wickenheiser has developed a solution to combat the shortage of vets. She recently launched a new service called, ‘Ask Vet Christine.’ Vet Christine has developed an online platform intended to give ongoing professional…
(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP) OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Police in Canada’s capital are telling protesting truckers who’ve paralyzed the city for more than two weeks that it’s time to leave. Ottawa police began handing out notices and threatening arrests Wednesday near the Parliament building. Authorities are warning truck drivers that they could lose their licenses if they don’t…
MINNEAPOLIS (Fox 9) – The Super Bowl is over, the 2021 NFL season is done, and it appears that the Minnesota Vikings have their next head coach in place. The Vikings have not made anything official as of Tuesday morning, but according to an ESPN report, the team plans to introduce Kevin O’Connell as the next head coach on Thursday….
Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Wednesday, February 16, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Headlines, Ken Slama, Local News, morning update, News, weather
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – University of Wisconsin System officials say they plan to end their campus mask mandates by spring break. UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Wednesday that widespread vaccinations and waning case numbers on system campuses and across the state justify the move. Thompson says vaccines and tests will still be available on campus and students and employees…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Schools and bus companies across Minnesota have been given $3.5 million in grant money to outfit school buses with stop-arm cameras. The Minnesota Legislature has awarded grants to 32 schools and bus companies to purchase and install the cameras, as well as buy supporting software programs. According to the state Department of Transportation, Minnesota was…
DULUTH, Minn. – A new restaurant has opened in downtown Duluth with a focus on as many homemade menu items as possible. Loaf and Ladle is located on the 200 block of West Superior Street. Cook Cody Packingham said they’re right now focusing on quick and easy lunch options for workers downtown while changing the menu seasonally to keep it…
DULUTH, Minn. – A water main break created quite a mess Tuesday near UMD. Some cars near the break got covered in muddy water and ice. The break happened in the morning hours on the 100 block of West College Street. Water service was restored to the neighborhood by around 2:30 p.m. A city spokesperson said crews brought in a…
DULUTH, Minn. – Duluth police arrested a 25-year-old Duluth man Tuesday after two armed robberies near each other – one at Walgreens on East Superior Street and the other at the nearby Jimmy John’s in the Plaza Shopping Center. The arrest also comes just one day after an armed robbery at the CVS on East Superior Street. Duluth police believe…
DULUTH, MN – Lake Superior College held their spring Student Success Day today, which is held every semester to help the students succeed not just academically, but also personally. Businesses and organizations from the community come to the event to provide LSC students with information about services and opportunities that would be of interest to them. “We have a lot…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers used his election year State of the State address on Tuesday to call on the Republican-controlled Legislature to approve his plan to send $150 to every taxpayer in Wisconsin, saying inaction by lawmakers now while people are suffering is “baloney.” Republicans reiterated after the speech that the plan is dead on arrival and the special session Evers…
DULUTH, Minn.- As winter continues Lake Superior is getting more frozen. But emergency officials and experts encourage people to think twice before venturing out on that ice. “That ice is always shifting in there too so you definitely have to watch what’s going on,” said Marques Hoglund, who works at Marine General. And the ice was on the move off…
DULUTH, Minn.-. Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District now encompasses more of the Northern part of the state after the map was re-drawn. The 8th District shifted further west, now it including all of Minnesota’s Native American reservations north of the Twin Cities. They’re now included with Iron Range mining and Duluth’s urban economies, among others, according to Dr. Cynthia Rugeley, Associate…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – “It’s really cool, I’ve never been on a dog sled before, so that was my first time and definitely wasn’t all what I expected,” UWS student, Molly Mason says. The sled dogs were out at UWS, an event organized by TRIO Student Support Services with Cast Outdoor Adventures, Inc., a wilderness based company who strives to educate…
DULUTH, Minn. – Registration for this year’s Grandma’s Marathon is seeing people sign up at a record pace. Organizers say all spots for the half-marathon are taken, with fewer than 2,000 spots for the marathon, and fewer than 400 for the 5K. If the current registration rate continues, all roughly 22,000 spots will be filled by the end of April. This…
DULUTH, Minn. – The City of Duluth has its first ever climate action work plan. City council members got their first look at it Monday, February 14, coming months after they passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency. You can read the full plan here. The plan is led by Mindy Granley, the city’s Sustainability Officer. “My job is to listen…
DULUTH, Minn. – The future of the former Kmart in West Duluth remains up in the air. The Duluth Planning Commission unanimously voted down plans in early February that would have transformed it into a U-Haul mini-storage site, citing it did not meet the retail development standards for Spirit Valley. “Generally in this type of neighborhood location it would be atypical…
DULUTH, Minn. – The addition of Sun Country to Duluth International Airport in late 2021 has helped one business offering services to people looking to get to and from the Twin Cities. Landline says they have been partners with the airline just a few months after they started in 2019. Despite the pandemic, they continued to offer rides and have been…
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota regulators have told the company behind the stalled copper-nickel mine project near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that it’s stopping work on the state’s environmental review. The Department of Natural Resources says it will “redirect staff resources to other high priority projects.” The agency has concerns about the location for the large amount of semi-dry processing…
DULUTH, Minn. – City of Duluth crews will be clearing parking lanes by pushing snow back beginning tomorrow, February 17. Crews will start on East 3rd Street at 21st Avenue East and work towards Mesaba Avenue. No parking signs have been posted along the route. Crews will begin working at 7:00 a.m. and hope to finish by 3:30 p.m. Depending…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota panel of five judges released newly drawn congressional and legislative district maps on Tuesday. Minnesota’s 2nd District in Congress, represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, got smaller and less rural due to increases in suburban population growth over the last decade in the northern part of the district. Despite the shifts in…
(AP) – A federal report warns that America’s coasts will be hit hard by an ever faster sea-level rise between now and the year 2050. Tuesday’s report by seven federal agencies predicts about a foot on average of sea-level rise in the next 30 years. That’s the same amount as in the past 100 years. By 2050, seas lapping against…
(FOX 9) – The Five-day State Fair preview is coming back in 2022. The Kickoff to Summer will be hosted at the Minnesota Fairgrounds from May 26-30 featuring State Fair food, beer, music, and the Giant Slide! This year’s event will require a reservation and attendance will be limited to 15,000. To buy a ticket guests will need to enter…
DULUTH, MN – The annual Duluth Sport Show returns to Duluth this weekend down at the DECC. This year the show organizers are bringing in new vendors and products along with a lot of new features that will require some planning ahead to experience them all. While the Sport Show includes plenty of family activities such face painting, a trout…
(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP) OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Trucks and other vehicles in Canada are rolling out of a southern Alberta town and ending a blockade that paralyzed a United States border crossing into Montana for more than two weeks. The convoy left Tuesday one day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to try to break the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A former Minneapolis police officer on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights has testified about academy training that included handcuffing drills in which knees were used to restrain people. Tou Thao said Tuesday that using knees was not unusual during training. He’s charged along with J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, who also…
Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Headlines, Ken Slama, Local News, midday update, News, weather
(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) (AP) – The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in 2012. The families and a survivor of the shooting sued Remington over how it marketed the AR-15-style rifle used…
Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Ken Slama, Local News, morning update, News, weather
DULUTH, Minn. – The Duluth Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a robbery suspect. Authorities were called to the CVS on East Superior Street around 6:30 p.m. Monday evening on reports of a suspect robbing the pharmacy while armed with a knife. Police say the suspect demanded cash from the employees. It is unclear how much…
DULUTH, Minn. — Duluth police say they responded to a call of a suspect robbing the CVS on East Superior Street while armed with a knife on Monday evening. The call came in around 6:30 p.m. that an individual had robbed the store of cash after demanding employees hand it over. It’s unclear how much money was stolen, but fortunately…
SUPERIOR, Wis.- Every car ride is better with some sound, and a new store in Superior is helping drivers bring some beats to anything that rolls. “It’s more of a want than a need I guess more so stuff that people enjoy more so than a necessity definitely,” said Dustin Mishler. Mishler came back to his Superior roots to set…
DULUTH, Minn.- Advocates honored the lives lost and raised awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People, with the Twin Ports 7th Annual March. The march was once again virtual this year, organized over zoom by the Native Lives Matter Coalition with speakers, honor songs, and performances from across the northland. Representatives from the Mayor’s Offices of…
DULUTH, Minn.- The City of Duluth closed applications for City Councilor Derek Medved’s Councilor-At-Large seat at 4:30 today and will now start reviewing the almost 30 candidates who applied. So far, 27 candidates have filed for the open seat, including community leaders like Pez Davila, and former City Councilor Noah Hobbs. At his last council meeting tonight, Medved thanked his…
DULUTH, Minn. – In a joint statement, Duluth Denfeld athletic director Tom Pearson and Duluth East athletic director Shawn Roed will be working with their coaches to develop an action plan to address sportsmanship within their athletic programs following FOX 21’s story on the incident of a Greyhounds hockey player that led to a Hunters player being diagnosed with a…
DULUTH, Minn. – St. Luke’s revealed that it’s OB/GYN department will be moving into a new space next year, opening January of 2023. The $4.5 million dollar upgrade will be located on the third floor of St. Luke’s Lakeview building with double the space that the department has now. A few upgrades of the new space include a larger lab,…
WRENSHALL, Minn.- A Northland egg farm has found itself in a bit of a scramble, in desperate need of egg cartons due to the supply chain crisis. Locally Laid Egg Company out of Wrenshall goes through hundreds of cartons a week. But now they’re running out, and not sure how they’re going to fill their orders this week. Since the…
DULUTH, MN – Several chemical engineering students at UMD have created a chocolate lab to put some of the concepts they have learned to practical use. The students were able to model the chocolate-making process starting with cocoa beans they harvested themselves. The lab itself comes as a surprise to many who venture through the halls of the engineering building….
DULUTH, MN – Construction crews started work on Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge Monday morning which is done every year while the shipping season is closed. Several maintenance tasks are put off until winter that can’t be done while ships are coming and going. With the bridge not going up every 30 minutes, crews are able to perform their routine maintenance…
DULUTH, Minn.- Duluth has seen more than one abandoned building catch fire this winter. Now the city is proposing a new job to reduce how long these buildings sit around as potential hazards. The Blight Mitigation Specialist would work with the Duluth Fire Department, Office of Life Safety, and Duluth Planning and Economic Development. The City plans to hire someone…
DULUTH, Minn. – Dozens of applicants have filed for the At-Large City Council vacancy which closes later today. So far, 26 candidates have filed for the open seat. Applications must be received by 4:30 p.m. Friday to be considered. Derek Medved, who currently holds the seat, announced last month that he would be stepping down to focus on his growing…
(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP) OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – A government official in Canada says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke emergency powers to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. For the past two weeks, hundreds and sometimes thousands of protesters in trucks and other…
(courtesy: Carlton County Sheriff’s Office) BARNUM, Minn. – Authorities say there were no reported injuries Sunday morning after an SUV experienced mechanical issues striking a parked vehicle and the building of the Lazy Bear Restaurant in Barnum. According to the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, dispatch received a call around 10:46 a.m. on Sunday reporting that a vehicle had struck the…
Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Monday, February 14, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Headlines, Ken Slama, Local News, midday update, News, weather
CASS COUNTY, Minn. – One person is dead following a Sunday morning fire in Cass County. According to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, fire crews responded to reports of a mobile home fire around 12:23 a.m. Sunday on US Hwy 2 in rural Bena. When crews arrived at the scene they found a mobile home fully engulfed in flames. After…
Join FOX 21’s Brett Scott and Meteorologist Ken Slama for a local look at news and weather making headlines Monday, February 14, 2022. Categories: Community, News, News – Latest News, News Update Tags: Brett Scott, community, Headlines, Ken Slama, Local News, morning update, News, weather
DULUTH, Minn. – City of Duluth Utility Operations crews are responding to a water main break in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood. The break was reported Monday morning and is located on the 3200 block of Trudeau Road. City officials say water has been turned off on Trudeau Road from Piedmont Avenue to Florine Street. It is not known at this…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota health officials say more than half of state residents who tested positive for COVID-19 in December were vaccinated. The Minnesota Department of Heath breakthrough case data does not indicate if people had received booster shots. Roughly a third of those who were hospitalized for COVID-19 or died during that month also were vaccinated. Health officials…
ST. LOUIS CO., Minn. — A man died on Saturday afternoon after he collided with an ambulance while driving his snowmobile. According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, 61-year-old Jeffrey Joe of Thief River Falls was riding on the Arrowhead snowmobile trail when he tried to cross the road to continue onto the Ash River Trail in the area…
