Duluth News Tribune

Hermantown’s Kole Zuidmulder on Thursday made a verbal commitment to play football and baseball at Minnesota Duluth. On the football field, Zuidmulder passed for 1,108 yards and was named Sea-Range Conference offensive player of the year as the Hawks won eight games. A handful...

On the ice, bench and inside the Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey locker room, senior captain Adam Krause is known for being a good communicator, a hard worker and a team-first guy. He not only holds his teammates accountable, but himself as well. His demeanor commands respect from...

An 11-year-old boy was arrested after officials found a threatening message on the wall of a Rush City, Minn., school timeout room. Officials declined to say what was in the message but said the intention was to harm other students at Jacobson Elementary School in Rush City, about...

Duluth celebrated the launch of a new initiative to fight domestic violence Thursday, extending the city's role as a national leader on the issue. The latest effort is called the "Blueprint for Safety," and it's based on practices first developed in St. Paul. Those efforts, in...

WASHINGTON - Republicans in the U.S. Senate made good on a pledge to approve the long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday, a measure the White House said President Barack Obama would veto. Senators voted 62-36 on the bill to bypass the Obama administration's review of...

Thulani Jwacu understands the power of the word "free." When he makes his pitch to low-income teenagers, he can see their eyes light up. If they go to community college, he tells them, "you don’t have to worry about paying for tuition." That, he said, is when they start...

A case of measles has been diagnosed in a 20-year-old University of Minnesota student. Fairview Hospital is contacting staff who may have had contact with the student when he sought treatment in a University of Minnesota facility, the Minnesota Department of Health announced in a...

The talk around the U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis has been that more criminal cases are showing up in federal courtrooms since Andy Luger was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for Minnesota in mid-February last year. New data obtained by the Star Tribune appear to bear that out. Overall...