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A.J. Seguin and Curt Forse walk on what used to be a bridge over the Nemadji River on State Highway 23 near Wrenshall on Sunday.Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com
Storm creates washouts, road closures
Flooding caused washouts and road closures in Carlton, Douglas and Bayfield counties on Sunday as a series of storms brought heavy rainfall across...
 News/Weather June 17, 2018 - 8:27pm
Grounded ship freed in Duluth harbor
The 1,004-foot freighter American Spirit was freed late Sunday night after becoming grounded while attempting to leave the Duluth harbor earlier...
 News June 18, 2018 - 8:03am
Man dies in roadway flooding in Northwestern Wisconsin
A 75-year-old Mason, Wis. man was found dead south of Ashland on Monday — 60 feet from his submerged pickup truck along a county road in White...
 News/accidents June 18, 2018 - 10:51am
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event on tax policy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Al Drago
Why Duluth? Trump visit capitalizing on changing district
Duluth is important. The President is coming to town, after all. "You'll be the center of the political universe," said Steven Schier, an elections...
 News/government and politics June 17, 2018 - 8:23pm
FILE -- A person early votes at Central Library in Madison, Wis., Oct. 14, 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court declined on June 18, 2018, to decide two challenges to partisan gerrymandering, citing technical grounds. In a case from Wisconsin, the court said plaintiffs there had not proved they had suffered the sort of direct injury to give them standing to sue. The court sent the case back to the lower courts to allow the plaintiffs to try again. (Lauren Justice/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
Supreme Court sidesteps decision on partisan gerrymandering in rulings on Wisconsin, Maryland cases
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a decision on when partisan gerrymandering goes too far, ruling against the challengers...
 News/government and politics June 18, 2018 - 10:48am
Former first lady Laura Bush at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. (Al Drago/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border 'breaks my heart'
Commentary by Laura Bush / Special To The Washington Post On Sunday, June 17, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds...
 opinion/columns June 18, 2018 - 7:22am
Boy dies from injuries sustained in May crash
A 14-year-old Hermantown boy has died from injuries he sustained in a car crash on Memorial Day. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner reported...
 News/accidents June 17, 2018 - 7:44pm
Sef Scott, 17, with his mother, Vicki, on prom night. Photo from Vicki Scott
Autistic boy's classmates had never heard him speak. What he finally said at graduation blew them away.
People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite...
 lifestyle June 18, 2018 - 9:22am
Duluth native Kara Goucher finishes the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in 1 hour, 18 minutes, 15 seconds. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com) play button
Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon: Goucher comes home
The strain Kara Goucher has been under recently showed up during a post-race news conference this morning after the former Duluth resident finished...
 sports/other June 16, 2018 - 11:33am
Townhomes coming to Congdon
Ted Stocke is developing about 3½ acres of land on the upper side of Duluth's London Road, building a single-family home initially but then switching to duplex townhomes with the expectation of constructing up to 36 units of housing. The first house will be stick built. However,...
 News June 17, 2018 - 8:26pm
The runway at the Silver Bay Municipal Airport was closed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation on Thursday, May 31. (Teri Cadeau/News-Chronicle)
Silver Bay considers options for closed airport
The Silver Bay City Council met Wednesday with representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Minnesota Department of Transportation...
 News/government and politics June 17, 2018 - 8:51pm
Anna Staats, of Lexington Park, Maryland, runs toward Knife River at Grandma's Marathon on June 16, 2018. Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com
Grandma's Marathon: Photos
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sports/other June 17, 2018 - 1:00pm
A driver sticks his arm out of the window to see if he can touch the water as he drives through a small lake's worth of water on 27th Avenue West near the freeway Friday afternoon in the aftermath of the storm. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com play button
Powerful storm causes flooding, power outages
A quick-moving thunderstorm moving west to east Friday caused flooding and knocked down power lines and trees throughout the Northland, leaving...
 News/Weather June 15, 2018 - 8:15pm
Generator fire stops Tregurtha outside Whitefish Bay
A generator fire aboard the Paul R. Tregurtha stopped the ship in Whitefish Bay early Monday. The vessel master of the 1,013-foot lake freighter reported the fire extinguished at 5:30 a.m., said the United States Coast Guard, which said in a news release that it received the first...
 News June 18, 2018 - 9:26am
Reader's View: Duluth government wasting money
Our elected leaders lack an understanding of the various principles of merchandising. They are “killing the goose that lays the golden eggs” by enacting invasive ordinances on local businesses.
opinion/letters June 18, 2018 - 10:33am

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