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    June 27, 2017
    Lutsen Resort's main lodge on Lake Superior was designed by Edwin Lundie. Photo courtesy of Lutsen Resort
    Historic Lutsen resort up for sale
    Historic Lutsen Resort on the North Shore of Lake Superior is up for sale for a cool $9.95 million. According to the resort's website Lutsen...
    NewsJune 27, 2017 - 5:45pm
    May 10, 2017
    Lutsen Mountains ski area on Minnesota's North Shore, in a view from 2015. (Photo courtesy of Lutsen Mountains)
    Lutsen Mountains moving closer to major ski expansion
    Lutsen Mountains is getting a little closer to a long-planned expansion of the North Shore downhill ski resort. The U.S. Forest Service has...
    NewsMay 10, 2017 - 5:29pm
    April 28, 2017
    Duluth East High School’s girls varsity team took to the court with girl ballers from Rookie Basketball Association this spring.
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    Varsity basketball teams mentor youth ballers Youth players from Salvation Army's Rookie Basketball Association learned from the big kids during...
    communityApril 28, 2017 - 6:00pm
    April 8, 2017
    Dressed in a parrot suit, Andrew Bailey goes over a jump during Saturday’s 2017 Bjorn Bakken Ski Championships of America in Duluth. The event is an annual end-of-the season backyard ski race hosted by the College of St. Scholastica ski team. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com play button
    Spring doesn't dampen annual St. Scholastica ski celebration
    Dressed in a parrot costume, Andrew Bailey stuck the landing off a ski jump and the crowd went wild with cheers. "I did the course a couple times...
    NewsApril 8, 2017 - 5:24pm
    March 28, 2017
    The IRRRB announced Tuesday that a private management team has been awarded a contract to operate Giants Ridge Ski and Golf Area starting May 1, 2016. (News Tribune file photo)
    New Giants Ridge management announced
    Giants Ridge, the Biwabik ski and golf resort complex owned by the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, now has its first private management...
    News/iron rangeMarch 28, 2017 - 11:40am
    March 12, 2017
    Stephanie Koski Strother, Stacey Mortensen and Sherri Rose donated more than $10,000 to the Duluth Cross-Country Ski Club's new Grand Avenue Nordic Center in honor of their mother Sharla Koski, an avid skier who was killed in Duluth in 1997. Sherri Rose photo
    Donation honors avid skier killed 19 years ago
    Sherri Rose's favorite memory of her mother, Sharla Koski, was cross-country skiing together on the weekends. "I'd ski out an hour. I was quite...
    NewsMarch 12, 2017 - 9:00pm
    March 3, 2017
    Duluth Denfeld High School skiers wore uniforms from the former Duluth Central High School ski team during the Charlie Banks Relays. Pictured are Hunters sophomores Hannah Feyen and Logan Rosholt, junior Catherine Skwira Brown and senior Esther Carillo.
    Hunters resurrect Central uniforms
    For an end-of-the-ski-season laugh, Duluth Denfeld High School skiers disguised themselves in red-and-white retro Duluth Central High School...
    community/scrapbookMarch 3, 2017 - 1:23pm
    March 1, 2017
    Mono-skier Pete LePage speeds down a run at Spirit Mountain on Wednesday. LePage is taking part in the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute’s 14th annual Mono-Ski, Nordic Ski and Race Camp through Friday. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.complay button
    Photos and video: Mono-skiers hit the slopes at Spirit Mountain
    NewsMarch 1, 2017 - 5:41pm
    February 28, 2017
    The Chalet at Giants Ridge as seen in October 2016. (file / News Tribune)
    IRRRB votes for private management at Giants Ridge
    State lawmakers who make up the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board on Tuesday voted 5-4 to hire a single private management company...
    NewsFebruary 28, 2017 - 5:16pm
    February 26, 2017
    Children run on a snow-bare in the Barnebirke one-kilometer race Thursday afternoon in Hayward. Lack of snow and warm weather has curtailed many traditional wintertime activities. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com
    Slow business for snow business
    With a late start and signs of an early end, winter has had about as strong a season as last year's Minnesota Twins. That's not good for businesses...
    BusinessFebruary 26, 2017 - 9:00pm
    February 25, 2017
    Skiers make the best of the lack of snow by making a quick ski of the 5K loop near Cable on Saturday. Sally Krueger / ABSF
    Birkebeiner cancellation doesn't stop race enthusiasts from coming to Cable
    CABLE — In a landscape of brown grass void of its typical February snow cover, four men wearing American Birkebeiner race bibs were running...
    NewsFebruary 25, 2017 - 11:06pm
    February 24, 2017
    Elite men's skate skiers leave the starting line of the 2013 American Birkebeiner in Cable, Wis. (2013 file / News Tribune)
    Birkie is canceled because of lack of snow, but party will go on
    The cancellation Friday of Saturday’s American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race called for perspective, and Will Snider delivered. “The...
    NewsFebruary 24, 2017 - 5:35pm
    The new chalet at Giants Ridge. (2016 file / News Tribune)
    Giants Ridge set to move to private management
    Giants Ridge ski and golf complex in Biwabik would be entirely run by a private management firm — and not state employees of the Iron...
    News/iron rangeFebruary 24, 2017 - 2:59pm
    February 23, 2017
    Jeremy Smith (left) and Scott Smith, who play Birkie warriors, along with Rebecca Ireland as "Inga," the mother of Prince Haakon, stroll among the crowd at the Barnebirkie races in Hayward on Thursday. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.complay button
    Birkie skiers, fans resolute and hopeful
    HAYWARD — In a normal year, this city's downtown would be a snow globe come to life that people dub "Birkieland." Main Street on the Thursday...
    NewsFebruary 23, 2017 - 7:39pm
    February 22, 2017
    Martin Stuge Baanerud of Marquette, Mich. (right) and Adam Swank of Duluth approach the Highway OO food station - about the halfway point of the race - during the 2013 American Birkebeiner. (2013 file / News Tribune)
    Snowy forecast buys time for Birkebeiner
    There appears to be hope for the American Birkebeiner yet — hope for at least a semblance of the weekend’s iconic cross-country ski race...
    NewsFebruary 22, 2017 - 4:47pm
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