New Twin Ports-area road construction closures begin Monday
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is kicking into high gear with its road construction season, including three projects in the Duluth area that start this week.Duluth News Tribune, 05/12/2013
Cold, strong winds will greet anglers Saturday
If the iced-over lakes don’t keep you home for Saturday’s Minnesota fishing opener, the weather may have you wishing you’d stayed indoors.Duluth News Tribune, 05/10/2013
Duluth gas prices low no more
What a difference two weeks makes to our pocket books. Duluth prices are up 57 cents, or about 17 percent, in two weeks, including a 20-cent increase from Wednesday to Thursday at some stations.Duluth News Tribune, 05/10/2013
Two weeks after reprieve, gas prices spike in Duluth
On April 26 the News Tribune reported that several Duluth stations had the lowest gas prices in the state at $3.32 per gallon. By Thursday gas prices across the city had shot up to $3.89 a gallon or more.Duluth News Tribune, 05/09/2013
Late snowstorms, frozen lakes ground northbound loons, grebes
Late-spring snow storms and frozen lakes are causing problems for migrating loons across northern Wisconsin where, in some cases, they have fallen out of the sky onto roads, farm fields and other places from which they can’t take off.Duluth News Tribune, 05/09/2013
Twin Ports-area road construction, closures begin next week
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is kicking into high gear with its road construction season, including three projects in the Duluth area that start next week.Duluth News Tribune, 05/09/2013
Minnesota highway, I-35 projects, closures near
Interstate 35 between Scanlon and Boundary Avenue in Duluth will be restricted to a single lane in each direction beginning Monday for about eight weeks.Duluth News Tribune, 05/08/2013
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to check for safe channels on St. Louis River
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to check depths of the St. Louis River above Clough Island in the Twin Ports harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard says it has become too shallow to place navigation buoys for recreational boaters after the June flooding.Duluth News Tribune, 05/08/2013
Dayton signs new mine inspector law
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has signed into law a major update of state rules on county mining inspectors — the first such effort in 108 years.Duluth News Tribune, 05/08/2013
St. Louis County approves $100K P&H tax rebate
P&H MinePro Services, one of the region’s growing mining industry support companies, will get a $100,000 property tax rebate over the next 10 years for its new Iron Range service center under action Tuesday by the St. Louis County Board.Duluth News Tribune, 05/08/2013
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