Duluth News Tribune

Discussion about a possible 2016 school referendum continues behind closed doors in Superior. Last month the Superior School Board scrapped plans to move the matter to open session when it delayed discussion on the selection of an architectural firm to advise on referendum and pre-referendum...

A 54-year-old Iron River man killed in a one-vehicle accident Friday afternoon in Bayfield County has been identified as Thomas M. Walsh. The Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office reported that Walsh was traveling north on Blue Moon Road when his vehicle went off the right side of the...

A 1981 homicide case in Duluth has been solved using DNA technology and the details are expected to be released Monday by the Duluth Police and Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Law enforcement hasn’t confirmed the case is that of 17-year-old Carolyn Lee Andrew, but police...

A rash of measles cases is a learning opportunity but not a reason to panic, health experts in Duluth say. “No one in Duluth should be losing any major sleep over this,” said Dr. Linda Van Etta, an infectious disease specialist at St. Luke’s hospital. Measles, once a rite...

The director of Duluth Township’s North Shore Community School has resigned. Susan Rose, who spent seven years leading the K-6 environmentally focused charter school 15 minutes north of Duluth, will be replaced on an interim basis by assistant director Barry Wolff. Rose gave her...

The Duluth News Tribune received several awards in the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Winners were announced Thursday night during the MNA awards banquet in Minneapolis. Competing in the large dailies division (circulations over 10,000), the News Tribune...

The News Tribune is looking for unique playrooms to feature in a new Home series: View of a Room. Have you re-created “Elmo’s World” or built an indoor playground? Maybe you’ve created a camping-themed room or an area with reading nooks and secret crannies? Tell us about...

Tell your sweetheart you love him or her by composing a haiku to be published in the Feb. 8 Scrapbook section. A haiku is a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables like this: To my dear sweetheart (5) You are everything to me (7) Won’t...

Much of the Northland is in a prolonged snow drought this winter. Through Friday, Duluth had seen just 6.6 inches of snow for the month, nearly a foot below normal. The seasonal snowfall in Duluth so far is 31.7 inches — 20.5 inches below normal and 22.6 inches less than we had...