DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Scientists are investigating an unprecedented algae bloom in Lake Superior and have sent samples for lab testing to determine if it's toxic. Minnesota Public Radio reports that kayakers and other visitors to the popular lake shore…
DULUTH, Minn. - Families in the Northland will have the chance to get bubbly this Sunday, August 19! This marks the 10th year for the Duluth Children's Museum's Bubble Festival. Organizers…
SUPERIOR, Wisc. - In this week's Animal Answers, we're tackling the topic of hot weather worries when it comes to pets. With temperatures soaring into the 80s and lower…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – The Superior Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 5322 East 3rd Street just before 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. When crews arrived the flames had spread from the home’s exterior to the attic. The house suffered…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former utility executive from Vermont has become the first transgender candidate to win a major political party's nomination for governor. Christine Hallquist defeated three other Democrats en route to victory in Tuesday's primary. The former CEO…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Turnout in Wisconsin's primary that saw hotly contested races among both Democrats and Republicans is the highest since 2002. Based on official results, turnout in Tuesday's election was nearly 22.1 percent. That is the highest since…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota's long list of big races in Tuesday's primary sparked the biggest turnout in more than 20 years. A spokesman for the secretary of state's office tweeted late Tuesday that it was about 21.5 percent. The spokesman,…
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (AP) - A father with a lengthy criminal record is charged with inflicting life-threatening injuries on his newborn son in Apple Valley. Thirty-two-year-old Michael Herkal is charged in Dakota County District Court with first-degree assault and malicious…
MADISON, Wis.-Wisconsin state schools chief Tony Evers has won the Democratic primary for governor and will face Republican Gov. Scott Walker in November. Evers emerged from a field of eight candidates in Tuesday's primary. He was the only candidate to…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison has won Minnesota's Democratic primary for attorney general. Ellison defeated four other candidates to win Tuesday's primary days after a former girlfriend accused him of domestic abuse. Ellison denied the allegation.…
HERMANTOWN, Minn.-Pete Stauber has won the GOP primary for the northeastern Minnesota congressional seat being vacated by Democrat Rick Nolan. Stauber, a St. Louis County Commissioner and retired Duluth police officer, defeated former Duluth School Board member Harry Robb Welty…
ST. PAUL, Minn.-County Commissioner Jeff Johnson has beaten former Gov. Tim Pawlenty in Minnesota's Republican primary for governor, derailing Pawlenty's bid to reclaim his old job. Johnson won Tuesday despite Pawlenty's enormous fundraising and name recognition advantages. He also won…
(AP) - Minnesota state Rep. Jim Newberger has won the GOP primary to take on incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Newberger beat three other candidates Tuesday but faces an uphill battle in November against the popular Klobuchar, who is…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Rep. Tim Walz has won a three-way primary for Minnesota governor. Walz leveraged his rural Minnesota connections and a geographically balanced ticket to defeat state Rep. Erin Murphy and Attorney General Lori Swanson in Tuesday's primary.…
Cloquet, Minn-As the Northland's been heating up, people in Cloquet are cooling off, making a splash in a unique way.
WASHINGTON (AP) Former state Rep. Joe Radinovich has won a crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan in a northeastern Minnesota swing district. Radinovich defeated Rep. Jason Metsa, longtime former news anchor Michelle Lee and others on…
DULUTH, Minn. - A juvenile is under arrest after a robbery and assault in downtown Duluth. Police tell us the crime happened around 9 p.m. Monday on the 200 block of West Superior Street. The victim told police a group…
DULUTH, Minn. - Former Duluth mayor Don Ness gives his analysis of Minnesota's 8th Congressional District race as the primary results were coming in around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Superior, WI- The bugle plays, mourning for this long overdue military funeral. Sergeant Rufus Lloyd Ketchum, being laid to rest 68 years after his death. Full military honors for this army veteran, surrounded…
PROCTOR, Minn. - Another DFL candidate hoping to fill the seat for Minnesota's 8th Congressional District is former Duluth tv news personality Michelle Lee. Supporters and volunteers for Michelle Lee want…
Superior, WI- Normally firefighters are the ones helping people out. But on Tuesday, they got some much needed help from a local gym. Anytime Fitness donated fitness equipment to the Superior Fire…
HERMANTOWN, Minn.-Minnesota Republican Congressional candidate Pete Stauber is eyeing a victory tonight in the Eighth District Republican primary. On the Republican side, Stauber is facing off against former Duluth School Board member…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman says he is being treated for lung cancer. The 68-year-old Republican announced his condition Tuesday in a posting on Facebook. It comes about two and a half years after he was diagnosed…
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - A jury has found two people guilty of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer following a protest at Enbridge Energy's Line 3 construction site in Wisconsin last summer. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that 24-year-old Alexander Emery…
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (AP) — Tons of dead fish. A smell so awful you gag with one inhale. Empty beaches, empty roads, empty restaurants. A toxic algae bloom has overrun Florida’s southern Gulf Coast this summer, devastating sea life and…
