editorials

Every day in the U.S., 11 teenagers die while texting and driving. In Minnesota, distracted driving accounts for one out of every four motor...

Newly sworn-in U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber's first bill was the one he said it would be — and one all Northlanders can support, no matter how...

Our collective relief — and not just in Northwestern Wisconsin, either, or even only across our Northland, but shared by an entire nation...

Political compromises in Washington aren't easy to find these days, but for how long can an obvious solution to a standoff be ignored? As he...

For nearly a year, Duluth golfers and others have been meeting regularly with city officials about the future of the municipal public courses...

Not that long ago, you could pretty much pick out the kids in a high school who were smokers. It's not so easy now, though, with nicotine-delivery...

Commissioners could have appointed a replacement, could have given in to politics. But St. Louis County's elected board did the right thing instead...

In 2014, when he ran for public office for the final time, longtime Iron Range warrior Tom Rukavina — "Tommy" to just about everyone who...

As much as Duluth's elected city councilors may be dragging their feet on Tobacco 21, they're being proactive, it seems — and admirably...

Duluth was the first city in the state to ban smoking at bus shelters. In 2012, Duluth ended smoking in public parks, too, including on the Lakewalk....

Sexual exploitation and the buying and selling of our children and vulnerable others "happens here in Duluth every day," Shunu Shrestha of the...

They served their community, sticking their necks out there and leaving themselves open and vulnerable to criticism and worse. Whether we always...

If it wasn't for the copper-nickel mine that could result in the end, even the most hardened PolyMet opponent could find something to cheer in...

Few in Duluth knew anything about the plans for a 15-story apartment tower at what is now the Voyageur Lakewalk Inn, a longtime Old Downtown...

A billion-and-a-half-dollar pile of cash has nearly everyone, it seems — in St. Paul and across Minnesota — perking up with ideas...