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UPDATE: Multiple injuries, no fatalities reported in explosion at refinery in Superior

The fire has restarted at the refinery around 12:15 p.m. CDT. Thick smoke billows out over the scene. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com play button
UPDATE: Multiple injuries, no fatalities reported in explosion at refinery in Superior
An explosion and fire rocked the Husky Energy oil refinery just after 10 a.m Thursday, sending a black plume of smoke across Superior and sending...
 News/fires April 26, 2018 - 12:26pm
Chisholm city administrator fired
Chisholm City Councilor Kevin Scaia has confirmed to WDIO-TV on Wednesday that the city administrator has been terminated. In an email, Scaia...
 News/government and politics April 25, 2018 - 10:30pm
Jeffery George Ackerson, Jr., and Sheena Marie Ackerson are facing charges related to the fire that destroyed their home in Bird Island on Jan. 15. Photo submitted by Renville County Sheriff's Department
Owners of Bird Island home destroyed by fire now face charges
OLIVIA, Minn.—The owners of a Bird Island home destroyed by fire in January have now been charged in connection with that fire. Jeffrey...
 News/crime and courts April 25, 2018 - 8:01pm
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It's a Tinderbox - Merrifield Brush Fire Moves Quicklyplay buttonIt's a Tinderbox - Merrifield Brush Fire Moves Quickly
Denfeld students participate in National School Walkout Dayplay buttonDenfeld students participate in National School Walkout Day
High winds create large waves on Lake Superiorplay buttonHigh winds create large waves on Lake Superior
“Financially, we are crippled. Our credit is being threatened,” said Sue Brown on April 25, 2018. “Burnell is a 70-year-old veteran and should be enjoying retirement,” she said of her husband, Burnell Brown, who has esophageal cancer. The basement walls, retaining walls and old cabin foundation of their White Bear Lake, Minn., home are poured concrete, encasing old lead batteries. Jean Pieri / St. Paul Pioneer Press
Minn. man believes old batteries used in foundation robbed him of health, home
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — Burnell Brown can't seem to escape the hundreds of hollow auto batteries encased in his basement. Or outside,...
 lifestyle/Home and Garden April 26, 2018 - 11:03am
A family enjoys a Lakewalk ride on a surrey from Wheel Fun Rentals. The business will not be operating in Canal Park until shoreline storm damage has been repaired. (file / News Tribune)
Canal Park business closed for summer due to Lakewalk damage
Wheel Fun Rentals announced that it will be closed this summer after storms this month and in October caused more than $3 million in damages...
 Business April 25, 2018 - 5:57pm
Central Minnesota boy dies month after crash with semi-truck
NEW LONDON, Minn. — A New London boy died Wednesday after being injured last month in a car crash. According to the family's CaringBridge site, Nathaniel Shumaker, 11, died at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was critically injured March 28 when a vehicle driven...
 News/accidents April 26, 2018 - 10:16am
The wanted poster for the man known as the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer. MUST CREDIT: FBI.
She stalked the Golden State Killer until she died. Some think her work led to the suspect's arrest.
She knew his blood type, his build, his habits and the way he breathed. She knew his twisted proclivities, embarrassing faults of his anatomy...
 News/crime and courts April 26, 2018 - 9:41am
Rendering of Zvago, a proposed 51-unit cooperative senior housing development at 3900 London Rd. Courtesy of Ecumen
Variance for London Road cooperative approved
A new senior cooperative housing development dubbed Zvago Superior Shore soon could be coming to Duluth. The Duluth Planning Commission recently...
 News April 25, 2018 - 6:45pm
North Dakota's Deion Harris, a 2014 Hibbing graduate, returned three of his five interceptions for touchdowns as a junior in 2016. (Photo courtesy of North Dakota athletics)
NFL draft: Hibbing's Harris looking forward
Deion Harris will be in Grand Forks, N.D., this weekend, where he's pushing hard toward the end of another semester at the University of North...
 sports April 25, 2018 - 7:32pm
A Port Authority official berated and cursed at officers during a traffic stop. A dash cam was on.
There is, of course, no official manual on how to use an official government position to get officers to tear up a ticket, but for any enterprising...
 News/nation April 25, 2018 - 3:01pm
Major pushback against Line 3 recommendation
A judge's recommendation that the Line 3 pipeline replacement should follow its existing route across Minnesota — through two reservations...
 Business/energy and mining April 25, 2018 - 8:47pm
Lake Superior College (News Tribune file photo)
Scholarships available for adults returning to college
Minnesota is offering $1 million in scholarships to help adult students finish their college careers. The 500 scholarships of $3,000 each are...
 News/education April 25, 2018 - 2:11pm
Northland residents travel by bus to Montgomery Wednesday evening en route to the Peace and Justice Memorial. Evan Frost / MPR News
Duluth bus rolls to a stop in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A delegation of 34 Duluthians making its way to the opening of a national lynching memorial this week reached one of the...
 News/education April 25, 2018 - 7:40pm
Authorities in Sacramento, Calif., announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo in the so-called Golden State Killer case. MUST CREDIT: Sacramento County Sheriff's Department
'Golden State Killer' suspect, a former police officer, arrested after DNA match, officials say
More than 40 years after the so-called "Golden State Killer" began terrorizing California, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities...
 News/crime and courts April 25, 2018 - 7:41pm
Matters of record received April 25, 2018
District Court St. Louis County April 10 Brian S. Rich Jr., 21, Cloquet, possess/procure/sell/barter/distribute prescription drugs, stay of...
 News/crime and courts April 25, 2018 - 10:09am

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