Sierra Club poll shows support for new energy sources
A poll conducted for the Sierra Club shows that most Minnesota Power customers surveyed support a “fundamental change” in the generation of electricity, away from coal and toward solar and wind power and energy efficiency.Duluth News Tribune, 05/02/2013
Poll shows support for Minnesota Power to use new energy sources
A Sierra Club survey says Minnesota Power customers want replacements for coal.Duluth News Tribune, 05/01/2013
'Dredging crisis' affects Great Lakes
When the 1,000-foot freighter Edgar B. Speer departed Two Harbors earlier this week for a steel mill in Gary, Ind., it left with a load of 60,000 tons of taconite.Duluth News Tribune, 05/01/2013
Snow expected, may be heavy in Northwestern Wisconsin
UPDATE: The National Weather Service this morning issued a winter storm warning for all of Northwestern Wisconsin and a winter weather advisory for much of Northeastern Minnesota, including Duluth, where 3 to 6 inches of snow is expected tonight.Duluth News Tribune, 05/01/2013
Fast-melting snow floods Duluth-area streams; more snow forecast
Record April snow, an unusually warm string of days, thunderstorms and now the possibility of snow in May are all contributing to Northland rivers spilling over their banks, some of them flooding roads.Duluth News Tribune, 04/30/2013
Flood warning issued for Scanlon
Some roads are closed as Northland rivers, already high form snowmelt, rise after overnight rain.Duluth News Tribune, 04/30/2013
New Lake Superior water-use plan has few changes
Lake Superior won’t be robbed to help boost water levels for Lakes Michigan and Huron, even under a new water-level management plan that will go into effect later this year.Duluth News Tribune, 04/30/2013
Great Lakes plan avoids using Lake Superior to bolster levels of lower lakes
Lake Superior won’t be robbed to help boost water levels for Lakes Michigan and Huron, even under a new water-level management plan that will go into effect later this year.Duluth News Tribune, 04/29/2013
Superior’s Lake Assault Boats finds niche in fire, rescue crafts
Lake Assault Boats occupies a nondescript warehouse in the Fraser Shipyards complex on Superior’s waterfront, but it’s a busy place.Duluth News Tribune, 04/29/2013
St. Louis County land commissioner Krepps retiring
Bob Krepps’ last day as St. Louis County land commissioner is today, and then he’s headed for the hills — the hills of central Wisconsin and Montana, that is, to hunt wild turkeys.Duluth News Tribune, 04/29/2013
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