DNT VIDEO: USCG Cutter Alder icebreaking in Duluth Harbor

DNT VIDEO: Driven by two 3,100-horsepower diesel engines, the 2,000-ton, 225-foot-long Alder can cruise through solid 14-inch thick ice at a steady three knots, its hull protected by an ice belt of steel 11/16ths of an inch thick. Backing and ramming, it can force its way through ice 3 feet thick.

January 09, 2009

Dog-tired Ratchet arrives in Minneapolis

At Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, congressman says Ratchet’s tale was a way for people to connect to soldiers in Iraq

By Mary Jane Smetanka , October 23, 2008

Palin stumps for Coleman in brief Hermantown stop

Before the speakers hit the stage, a crowd of pro-Obama supporters began a protest rally in the Gander Mountain parking lot, but were asked to leave by Hermantown police.

By Brandon Stahl , October 16, 2008