Duluth News Tribune

A minister who led a cult-like religious sect in northern Pine County sexually abused numerous girls and young women who lived apart from their families in a “Maidens Group,” according to charges filed in State District Court. Victor Arden Barnard, 52, was charged last week...

A new plan that aims in part to desegregate Duluth’s Myers-Wilkins Elementary adds a schoolwide science, technology, engineering and math program. The school — which this year holds the combined populations of the students from within its boundaries and those from the former...

Eight former Minnesota Duluth hockey players concluded NHL regular-season play over the weekend and five of them will continue action in the playoffs. Minnesota Wild right winger Justin Fontaine (2007-11 at UMD) scored 13 goals and added eight assists for 21 points in 66 games, though...

Duluth police are investigating after human remains were found Tuesday afternoon in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Officers got a call at 2:04 p.m. about a dead human body. A witness saw a decomposed body 100 yards north of the intersection of 19th Avenue West and Second...

The remains recovered from a car found overturned in a South Dakota creek last fall have been identified as those of two teenage girls who disappeared in 1971, and no foul play is suspected, authorities said on Tuesday. The girls, Cheryl Miller and Pamela Jackson, were both 17...

An Allegiant Air flight destined for Duluth from Las Vegas late Monday afternoon had to return to Las Vegas shortly after takeoff because of a swarm of bees. Allegiant spokeswoman Jessica Wheeler said the flight crew reported at 5:30 p.m. Duluth time that shortly after takeoff,...