Dan Kraker

The county reported more than 40 roads closed due to flooding several roads in the county are washed out. Downtown Cook is underwater and YMCA Camp du Nord is reportedly cut off due to a road washout.

For the first time in four years—after the COVID-19 pandemic and then a $9.3 million reconstruction project—public tours of the Soudan Underground Mine started up again on Memorial Day weekend.

In this Tuesday, July 6, 1999 file photo, a home on the south shore of Gunflint Lake in northeastern Minnesota is framed by the devastation caused by a storm that passed through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area over the Fourth of July weekend. Brian Peterson | AP 1999

For more than three decades, Peggy Callahan has talked to the public about wolves as founder and executive director of the Wildlife Science Center

Camping on Duluth city property, smoking tobacco or cannabis in the city skyway system, and blocking sidewalks and streets without a permit would

The Duluth City Council is weighing a controversial ordinance making camping on city land a misdemeanor crime. Critics say it criminalizes homelessness. Duluth officials say the change would help get people services.

In a statement, the utility said the leak occurred from an underground pipeline that transfers the wastewater from an inactive coal combustion residual pond to the plant for process water.

A coal ash wastewater leak at a northern Minnesota power plant earlier this week was more than five times larger than original estimates, according to Duluth-based Minnesota Power and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

More than 400 nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives and clinical nurse specialists who work for Duluth-based Essentia Health voted Tuesday to form a union, the first time that so-called “advanced practice providers” have unionized at Essentia.

Quick Read Despite being legal for months, it was still kind of surreal to see people openly smoking marijuana in public recently, and smell the pungent clouds surrounding them.