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Duluth Police Department's 2022 in Review

DULUTH, Minn. - The Duluth Police Department and Mayor Emily Larson held a news conference Thursday highlighting the 2022 public safety report. A challenge the DPD faced this year was staffing as 27, a historic…

Great Lakes Aquarium Sets New Attendance Record

DULUTH, Minn.-- For the past few years, the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth has had a goal of boosting its attendance to break the 200-thousand visitor mark. The organization  just announced that it…

McCarthy Fails For 3rd Long Day In GOP House Speaker Fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP…

Bills: Safety Damar Hamlin Showing ‘Remarkable Improvement’

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had…

Biden Restricting Nicaraguans, Cubans And Haitians At Border

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. Instead, the…

School Closings and Delays Jan. 4 and 5, 2023

Aitkin Public Schools - 2-hour delay and no preschool January 5. Ashland School District - No evening/after school activities January 4. Barnum Public Schools - Closed for e-learning January 5. Carlton School District - 2-hour delay January 5. Cromwell-Wright - 2-hour…

Icicle and Ice Dam Problems

DULUTH, Minn. -- During the holidays, people see icicles on a roof and often thin "that looks pretty."  However the reason the icicles have formed may mean there’s a problem with your…

Duluth Salvation Army Year-Round Services

DULUTH, Minn. -- The Salvation Army's Christmas fundraiser is over after the Red Kettle campaign ended on Christmas Eve. Just one day prior they were still $10,000 short of their goal of $215,000, but…

McCarthy Fails Again In Bid For Speaker, GOP In Disarray

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or to come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of…

YMCA Continues Offering CPR Certification Classes

DULUTH, Minn.-- Community members have options for CPR certification in light of the Damar Hamlin scare. Multiple YMCA's in Duluth and surrounding areas offer CPR, First Aid, and AED classes. Sessions involve a science component…

Idaho Slayings Suspect Agrees To Extradition To Face Charges

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A criminology graduate student arrested for the November slayings of four University of Idaho students agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was taken into custody last week, to face charges in Idaho. Bryan…

Two Cases Of Legionnaires' Disease In Duluth Apartment

DULUTH, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Health says two cases of Legionnaires' Disease have popped up in a Duluth apartment building. One case happened in October, and the other was in December. Both people were living in the Woodland…

McCarthy Falls Short In First Vote For House Speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was dealt a historic defeat in first-round voting Tuesday to become House speaker, vowing to try again but sending the new Congress into opening day tumult as conservative colleagues opposed his leadership. McCarthy had pledged…

Evers To Push For Legal Abortions, Expanded Medicaid

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers plans to outline a largely liberal agenda in his second inaugural address Tuesday, though he’ll also call for Republicans and fellow Democrats to work together on issues that have long divided them, including protecting…

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