DULUTH, Minn. – A sixteen year old musher from Brule is on a mission to compete in the 2018 Junior Iditarod in Alaska. Talia Martens made her announcement Tuesday at Yappy Hour in the Fitger’s Courtyard, and of course her lead dog was with her. Talia has the backing of John Beargrease Sled Dog marathon champion Jamie Nelson who has…
HOUSTON – As Hurricane Harvey relief continues, volunteers from across the country head to Texas to lend a helping hand to people affected by the storm. Some of those volunteers are from right here in the Northland. From providing assistance to people in shelters to caring for animals left homeless by the storm, Northlanders are finding ways to help those…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – More protests occurred today just outside Superior at the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Reconstruction Project. The Douglas County Sheriff says six people were arrested, but no one was violent. Authorities did say one person chained themselves to some machinery at the scene. This is the third incident in the last few weeks at the site. Enbridge says…
DULUTH, Minn. – A donation drive for those affected by Hurricane Harvey will be held at Denfeld High School on Thursday from noon to 7 p.m. Mike Letica and other local business leaders are asking the public to drop off cash donations, as well as items like bottled water, air mattresses, toiletries and pet food. This weekend, Letica will…
DULUTH, Minn. — With the recent rainy weekend dumping 1-5″ inches of rain across the Northland, its puddled up and left soggy and muddy trails, forcing them to close. According to the cyclists of the Gitchee Gumee Shores, when you put your footprint or bike tire through the goopy mud, the imprint leaves a lasting mark. The rut catches water…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is resigning to take a job with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement Tuesday, Cathy Stepp will become deputy administrator for the EPA’s Region 7. Stepp has been DNR secretary since 2011. Walker appointed Deputy Secretary Kurt Thiede to serve as…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A jury has awarded more than $20 million to the family of a woman who died days after giving birth to her son at a Minneapolis hospital. The verdict in Hennepin County District Court Monday is the result of a lawsuit by Nicole Bermingham’s family against a nurse and Emergency Care Consultants, which provides emergency medical personnel…
Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston. (AP Photo) HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that police Sgt. Steve Perez has died after he became trapped in his patrol car as he was driving to work. The Houston Chronicle…
Evacuees wade down a flooded section of I-610 as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP) HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) – Harvey has set a new U.S. record for rainfall from a tropical storm. A weather station southeast of Houston at Mary’s Creek at Winding Road, reported 49.32 inches of rain as of Tuesday morning,…
(AP Photo) WASHINGTON (AP) – Confronting Harvey’s fury, President Donald Trump made an all-out push Tuesday to show the federal government’s responsiveness to the massive storm that has lashed the Texas coast and caused catastrophic flooding. Trump is visiting Texas to observe the federal government’s work to help the state recover after Harvey’s devastation. The storm, bringing torrents of rain…
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions is calling the epidemic of drug overdose deaths “the top lethal issue” in the U.S. and urged everyone “create and foster a culture that’s hostile to drug use.” Sessions delivered the remarks Tuesday to the National Alliance For Drug Endangered Children, which is hosting its annual conference in…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Great Minnesota Get-Together started up last week and already thousands of visitors have taken a ride on one of the fair’s oldest traditions. Wooden boats floating through Ye Old Mill at the Minnesota State Fair carry generations of love stories with them. As the nation’s oldest tunnel of love, the ride has been taking lovebirds through…
DULUTH, Minn. – The 31st Annual Duluth-Superior Pride Festival will be taking over the Twin Ports this week and weekend. The festival is taking place Thursday, August 31 – Sunday, September 3. Schedule of Events: Thursday, August 31: Mayor’s Reception, 5-8 p.m., Duluth Depot Duluth Playhouse Play: I am my Own Wife, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 1: White Party…
UPDATE 8/28: The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office sent out a news release late Monday saying they believe human remains located in Twig are that of Edward Lepage. Family members and friends who held a ground search Sunday made the discovery. The remains are being transported to the Midwest Medical Examiners Office in Ramsey, Minnesota for analysis and positive identification….
DULUTH, Minn. – The Duluth city council unanimously passed new vacation rental permits for properties in the city on Monday. The approval brings the number of vacation rentals to 60. That number is the cap under a city ordinance that was put into place last year after councilors Zack Filipovich and Noah Hobbs heard from concerned residents. “One of the reasons…
DULUTH, Minn. – Heavy hearts continue for friends and family of 15-year-old Will Schlotec who drowned over the weekend in the popular swimming hole known as The Deeps. People close to Schlotec have begun to build a memorial at the site of the accident. On Monday, friends showed up with flowers and comforting words for one another as the new school…
DULUTH, Minn. – After hearing about the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, one Northland business leader is looking to offer some help. Mike Letica made a post on Facebook earlier today, asking the public to help him collected supplies for the people of Texas displaced by the hurricane. But it’s not just supplies he’s looking to bring…
DULUTH, Minn. — Mike Mennes has had a lifetime love affair with taking photos. “I just love the art form, I love photography,” he said. “I started shooting when I was 12 or 13. My father was into it and he got me a camera and that’s how I started.” Mennes is the owner of First Photo in Duluth, a…
DULUTH, Minn. – A passenger bus got stuck on the 2100 block of East Third Street after making a wrong turn. The Duluth Police Department says the driver was from out of town and got confused after driving through the construction on Fourth Street. The bus got wedged at the end of a one-way and damaged a fire hydrant. A tow…
SUPERIOR, Wisc. -Wisconsin Indianhead Techical College students in Superior are back for the semester. Classes started on Monday for those students seeking an Associates Degree or technical diploma, to get that first step towards a new career. “It doesn’t matter if you’re 18 years old and coming here, or you’re 45 and coming here,” WITC VI of Academic Affairs Bonny…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Forest Service held an open house in Duluth Monday to help inform the public about a proposed land exchange in Northeast Minnesota. As part of the deal, the Forest Service would acquire 31,000 acres of Minnesota School Trust land in the Boundary Waters. In return, the state would receive an equal value of federal land on…
DULUTH, Minn.- With the first day of school approaching, community members got together to stuff backpacks for school kids. In the last two months, people have donated things like crayons, pencils, markers and backpackers to the cause. And Monday, volunteers gathered together to put those supplies into the backpacks so they can give them away to students this Thursday. “We…
DULUTH, Minn.- The new school year or grades schools is just around the corner, and schools in the Northland are getting ready for students to come pouring through their doors. Lowell Elementary school in Duluth has 2 language immersion programs, where students learn subjects like math, science and history all in Ojibwe or Spanish. So this year, school staff put…
DULUTH, Minn. – Students were welcomed to the sixth grade at Lincoln Park Middle School on Monday. The Wildcat Welcome had selected eighth graders serve as Pride Leaders and show the new sixth graders around the school. The orientation helps new students make friends, learn where they’re going, and feel comfortable as they transition from elementary to middle school. “On…
DULUTH, Minn.- The Duluth School district has been preparing for the new school year for the entire Summer, and now, the new school year is just around the corner. Research shows that students who are chronically absent are less likely to succeed in school, and this year, the Duluth School District is working on getting their student’s attendance numbers up….
DULUTH, Minn. – Fall classes started Monday at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Students are back on campus after more than three months off for summer break. They spent today being handed syllabi and getting back into the college flow. “I’ve sat here in Kirby in between classes, hanging out with friends that I haven’t seen in a while and good…
DULUTH, Minn. – Volunteers from across the country are heading to Texas to help communities recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey, and that includes volunteers from right here in the Northland. The American Red Cross in Duluth has nine volunteers either on their way to Texas or already there to help with Hurricane Harvey relief. Local officials are…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee has unanimously approved $1 billion in funding for state building projects. The committee on Monday voted to fund a number of building projects that Gov. Scott Walker did not include in his budget. Those include about $192 million in seven projects across the University of Wisconsin System, $7 million for a…
FARGO, N.D. – Two individuals believed to be involved in the death of Savanna Greywind have been charged in Cass County District Court, according to Cass County State’s Attorney Birch Burdick. Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, and William Henry Hoehn, 32 were each charged with Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping on Thursday, Aug. 24, after they were found with Greywind’s newborn child…
(FOX 9 KMSP) HOPKINS, Minn. (KMSP) – The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has determined the 67-year-old man allegedly killed by his neighbor in Hopkins, Minnesota home last week died of multiple chop wounds. John Gallagher Jr. was found dead at his home on the 200 block of 10th Avenue North in Hopkins at approximately 3:40 a.m. last Friday. Police arrested Gallagher’s former next-door…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The fate of the legal battle between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers now rests with the Minnesota Supreme Court. The two sides took their disagreement surrounding the Democratic governor’s veto of the Legislature’s $130 million operating budget to the state’s highest court Monday. Dayton line-item vetoed their funding to force top Republicans to rework…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Wild fans will have the chance to contribute water from their local hockey ponds, lakes, and rinks to the ice sheet at the Xcel Energy Center. The team says water from around Minnesota will be brought to the arena, filtered, and frozen into the ice as part of a new campaign, “Flood the Rink.” Fans…
(MINNESOTA) – A new deer feeding ban is in place until 2019 for 11 central and north-central Minnesota counties surrounding two farms where multiple captive deer have been found to be infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “Feeding bans in central and north-central Minnesota are precautionary,” said Lou Cornicelli, wildlife research manager…
IRON RIVER, Wis. – This weekend a Wisconsin community is banding together to support several projects in Iron River. White Winter Winery is once again hosting the Annual Emergency Pig Out. The event raises funds for Iron River’s Emergency Services to purchase and maintain EMS equipment. Also, this year some money will be going to the Iron River Lions Club…
Evacuees wade down a flooded section of I-610 as floodwarters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP) HOUSTON – The Texas coast has been devastated by the effects of Hurricane Harvey, which has created unprecedented flooding and forced thousands to flee for their lives. If you’re looking to make a difference, here’s how you can help…
SUPERIOR, Wis.- Boats shaped like Dragons glided over the waters by Barker’s Island. It’s all for the 16th annual Dragon Boat Festival in Superior. “You have 20 people on a boat you have a drummer in the front, and a steerer in the back. You gotta stay in sync as hard as you can,” said Alex Havron, a member of…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in Fargo, North Dakota, say they’ve found the body of a missing woman, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared. Fargo Police Chief David Todd told a news conference the body of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind was found in a river Sunday evening. Todd says the body, which was wrapped in plastic, was first spotted…
DULUTH, Minn. – A captain on the Duluth Fire Department is opening up about the relentless struggle to help rescue a missing father and daughter in the waters off Park Point earlier this month. The two victims would eventually be found without a pulse and later pronounced dead at a Duluth hospital. The purpose of this story is to get a…
DULUTH, Minn. – The Northland Chapter of the American Red Cross has deployed to Texas to help victims of Harvey. A total of six Northlanders are part of the effort. Financial help is also needed. The Red Cross encourages you to donate $10 by texting the word “Harvey” to 90999. Meanwhile, Minnesota Power has about 30 lineworkers and support staff on…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the biggest events in Superior each year. Students from Superior’s sister city in Japan got to experience dragon boat racing first hand. Competing in a dragon boat race takes hard work., but more importantly it takes well executed teamwork. “Despite the fact that the course doesn’t look that long, it’s…
DULUTH, Minn. – Overnight lane closures are happening on Central Entrance from Aug. 27 to Aug. 31. The rehab work is between Mall Drive and Mesaba Avenue from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. during the project. Categories: News, News – Latest News
DULUTH, Minn.- Family friends and neighbors could be seen enjoying the day outside on what usually are busy roads, but Sunday, the intersection of 4th Street and 6th Avenue East in Duluth was closed to traffic. It’s all part of the 8th annual Hillfest, a neighborhood street festival for Duluth’s Hillside Neighborhood. “It’s a great way to bring the community together I…
DULUTH, Minn.- The Clean Water Council met for a monthly meeting to discuss projects going on in the area. Presenters talked about the St. Louis River area of concern and issues surrounding it, like aquatic habitat restoration, wild rice restoration, and community engagement. The meeting also addressed progress made in removing the environmental pollution on the St. Louis River. “We…
Duluth, Minn. – New information was beginning to come to light Sunday about 15-year-old Will Schlotec who died after jumping into a popular swimming hole known as “The Deeps.” Schlotec was about to become a sophomore this year a Duluth East High School, according to a neighbor. He was a very active young man who was on the…
DULUTH, Minn. On August 26th, 2017 at approximately 5:20 PM the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the area of 556 Occidental Blvd, in the City of Duluth for a report of a 15 year hold male jumped into the “DEEPS”, and has not resurfaced. A short time later, emergency responders arrived on scene, and located the male in the…
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is holding a public auction of some of their equipment. The sale is being held Saturday at 9 am. More than 200 items like cars, trucks ATVs and snowmobiles will be up for bid. There will be an on-site inspection held before the sale. “The public auctions are work very well…
CLOQUET, Minn. – Crews are wrapping up the final days of construction on the new Cloquet Middle School before students return for the school year. After two years of planning and about 15 months of construction, the 180,000 sq. ft. building is nearly complete. “The construction has been just amazing in terms of what they’ve been able to accomplish in…
Hurricane Harvey, moving toward the Texas Gulf Coast, can be seen from the International Space Station. harvey strengthened to a Category 3 storm early Friday afternoon. It could hit land up to 3 feet of rain, 125 mph winds, and 12-foot storm surges (Aug. 25) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — With time running out, tens of thousands of people…
ELY, Minn. – Just in time for the new school year, Ely’s Vermilion Community College has unveiled a new $6 million housing project. The 120-bed facility is a four-unit townhouse which sits next to the existing dorm. Needless to say, the campus is buzzing with excitement with the new digs. “It was a big deal for us,” said Shawn Bina,…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Crews responded to the call of a structure fire at E5 Linden Courts in Superior at 6:15 on Thursday, Aug. 24, according to the Superior Fire Department. Initial reports indicated heavy, black smoke visible form the front of a two-story, multifamily building. The first engine to arrive confirmed a working fire in the front of the builting….
