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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Alexandria boys hockey coach Ian Resch coaches his team from the bench at the Xcel Energy Center in the Cardinals' win over Hermantown on March 9, 2018. Resch touted Alexandria's high school team as one of the best in Minnesota right now after the Cardinals finished second in the Class A state tournament. Eric Morken / Forum News Service
Alexandria-based team accepted into new prep hockey league
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Despite not yet having a team assembled and an arena that is still under construction, a Christian school in Alexandria...
 sports/hockey April 22, 2018 - 7:42am
Erik William Sutton
Erik William Sutton Erik William Sutton passed away on April 18, 2018. He was born on July 1, 1971 to William and Cheryl (Maki) Sutton. Erik...
 April 22, 2018 - 1:38pm
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
Larry Gadaire of Grand Forks stands by two of the boats -- a canoe and kayak -- he built in his shop. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service play button
Craftsman makes a wake building kayaks and canoes
GRAND FORKS — Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago...
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 7:48am
042218.O.DNT.STEGERc1 -- Ely's Will Steger loads gear into his canoe-sled on March 21 at Black Lake, Saskatchewan at the start of his 70-day, 1,000-mile trek across Canada's barren lands. Photo courtesy Steger Wilderness Center
Steger plugging away on barren lands solo trek
Polar explorer Will Steger has encountered deep snow and some slow going in the first month of his planned 70-day, 1,000-mile solo trek from...
 sports/outdoors April 22, 2018 - 1:10pm
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
Shirleyann Clark
Shirleyann Clark June 14, 1930 - April 20, 2018 DULUTH, Minn. - Shirleyann Clark, 87, Duluth, died Friday, April 20, in Viewcrest Healthcare Center. A full obituary will be in the Wednesday, April 25, newspaper. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Minnesota in Duluth.
 April 22, 2018 - 1:47pm
Jon Curtis Ness
Jon Curtis Ness age 83, of Duluth, MN died unexpectedly at his daughter's home on April 19, 2018. Jon has joined the Lord and will be deeply missed by all those who knew and loved him. He was preceded in death by Catherine Ness and is survived by children, Steven, Wayne (Julie),...
 April 22, 2018 - 1:38pm

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t4.19.18 Bob King -- 042018.N.DNT.MNSLIPc -- Work intended to rebuild the dock wall in the Minnesota Slip has been halted due to a historic preservation issue. It will impact the operation of the Vista Queen, which was prepping to go in May, and the William A. Irvin, which is still floating in the middle of the slip, away from the DECC-side wall under repair. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com

The $6.1 million Minnesota Slip seawall reconstruction project, on hold since early March, was void of activity again on Friday as it sat fenced off from the rest of Harbor ...

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