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Decorative bike racks shaped and painted to resemble carrots stand in front of Whole Foods Co-op's Denfeld store, 4426 Grand Ave. (file photo / News Tribune)
Whole Foods Co-op workers vote to unionize
Workers at Whole Foods Co-op in Duluth voted in favor of ratifying their first union contract. The vote of 67-1 to unionize at both the Denfeld...
 Business/Small Business April 22, 2018 - 5:15pm
t4.19.18 Bob King -- 042118.N.DNT.JAILc -- The city of Duluth will be asked to lend its support for a state grant to replace the block-glass windows in the old St. Louis County jail building with historically appropriate but more functional windows. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com
Project could unlock old St. Louis County Jail's potential
The city of Duluth is being asked to support a request for state aid to help fund the purchase of new windows for the old St. Louis County Jail....
 News April 22, 2018 - 7:30pm
Meghan Wagner holds a photo of her sister Micaila Hey, who died from a purposeful overdose. She is joined by her mother, Rachel Colombe; father, Patrick Hey; and brother Jakob Hey at Brighton Beach, one of Micaila's favorite spots. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com
Northland family fights for bill that would tax Big Pharma in battle against opioid abuse
Esko native Micaila Hey, known for her warmth and eagerness to help others, took her own life in January by overdosing on pure fentanyl, a powerful...
 News April 22, 2018 - 1:40am
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1963 Impala was beautiful, but it fell apart
FARGO — I overheard a conversation at a Fargo coffee shop. Two oldies (like me) watched a vintage 1957 Chevrolet pull into a snowy parking...
 opinion/columns April 22, 2018 - 9:50am
Shooting in Carlton County leaves three injured
Three people were injured in a shooting Friday night in Progress Township in Carlton County. A report of a shooting on the 4000 block of Kari...
 News/crime and courts April 21, 2018 - 12:57pm
Joe Stariha joins Superior Fuel
Joe Stariha joins Superior Fuel Joe Stariha has joined Duluth, Minnesota-based propane provider Superior Fuel Company as chief financial officer....
 Business/announcements April 22, 2018 - 9:14pm
Duluth News Tribune outdoors writer Sam Cook holds a lake trout he caught on Basswood north of Ely while doing an outdoors story for the newspaper. Cook will retire from outdoors writing at the newspaper on Friday. Kelly Murphy photo
Sam Cook paddles into retirement: After 38 years as the News Tribune’s outdoors writer, he hangs up his notebook
After 38 years as the Duluth News Tribune's outdoors writer, Sam Cook is retiring Friday to pursue, well, pretty much what he's always pursued....
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 1:22am
The ticks have been waiting for warmer weather, and they are hungry
ST. PAUL — Along with the usual caveats about muzzle control and keeping the safety on, Garth Guyer, a youth firearms safety instructor in Dakota County, gave his class of 30 one more order for range day on Saturday, April 21. "Bring your permethrin!" he said. "The ticks will...
 sports/outdoors April 21, 2018 - 3:35pm
Alexa Carson of Duluth works on a painting featuring an owl in her studio recently. Carson brings her love of bird-watching and nature into her work as a local wildlife painter, illustrator and designer. Owls and foxes are prominent in her paintings, some over pages out of old books. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
A splash of realism: Duluth painter hones her style for animal paintings
Alexa Carson was greeted with sympathy at an art fair over her "damaged" canvases. It'd been raining that day, and her work has long drips of...
 lifestyle April 22, 2018 - 5:00am
Sam Cook is an outdoors writer for the Duluth News Tribune.
Sam Cook column: Heading down a new trail with plenty of old friends
I visited my friend Jeff Rennicke's writing studio in Bayfield years ago. It was a simple room, bare of most distractions, but on the wall above...
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 1:59am
042218.O.DNT.SturgeonC1 -- Dan Wilfond, a fisheries specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources at French River, holds a 63.7-inch, 70-pound female lake sturgeon during DNR sampling on the St. Louis River in April last year. The fish was fitted with an acoustic transmitter, and its movements are being monitored as part of an ongoing study by several agencies. Minnesota DNR photo
Sturgeon solutions: Biologists seek reasons for lack of fish's reproduction on St. Louis River
The St. Louis River has a healthy population of adult lake sturgeon, but those fish are not producing the numbers of young fish that biologists...
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 3:31pm
Brad Dokken
Angler's fish tale presents learning opportunity
GRAND FORKS — Not that many years ago, it was relatively common practice for anglers fishing sturgeon on Lake of the Woods and Rainy River...
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 7:20am
Marshall’s Mason Kosmatka (from left), Cory Ohnsted and Josh Kanoff have the Hilltoppers’ robot (foreground) move a power cube during FIRST Minnesota Duluth Regionals robotics competition at the DECC in March. News Tribune file
Marshall, East robotics teams to compete at worlds
Two Duluth robotics teams are headed to the world championship tournament. The Marshall School Topperbots and East High School Daredevils are...
 News/education April 22, 2018 - 8:00pm
Crews battle a fire on the 500 block of 8-1/2 Street in Virginia Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Friends of the Northland FireWire)
Fire destroys Virginia house; two injured
Two people were injured in a fire that destroyed a three-story house in Virginia on Saturday afternoon. The Virginia Fire Department responded...
 News/fires April 22, 2018 - 4:52pm
Matters of record received April 21, 2018
District Court St. Louis County April 20 Nyisha L. Allen, 27, Wabasha, Minn., driving after suspension, fined $400. Shawn M. Anderson, 32,...
 News/crime and courts April 21, 2018 - 12:44pm

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