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The Northland saw anywhere between a dusting and a foot of new snow from Friday evening through Saturday, adding to already-mountainous snow piles and causing travel headaches across the region. Meanwhile, temperatures will tumble into the teens and 20s below zero tonight and Sunday...

The victim of a snowmobile related incident in Lake County Tuesday has been identified as 32-year old Davis Hartshorn of Finland. Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson said that the deputy who investigated the incident, however, didn't find evidence indicating that Hartshorn's death...

All Duluth public, private, parochial and charter schools are closed Tuesday, Dec. 3, because of the heavy snow falling in the Northland. The Lake Superior school district, which includes Two Harbors and Silver Bay, also is closed today, along with Proctor schools, Hermantown schools...

Get those shovels and snowblowers ready: A winter storm taking aim at the Northland may drop in excess of a foot of snow by the time it moves out on Wednesday. And you'll want to get the wet snow removed quickly, because it'll be followed by a blast of arctic air that may leave...

Mining companies looking for more copper, nickel, gold and other metals in Northeastern Minnesota will get a chance to prospect on more land after action this morning by the state's Executive Council in St. Paul. The panel of state officials voted 4-1 to approve so-called mineral...

A group of Lake County residents today asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to consider their case asking the state to conduct environmental reviews before state mineral rights are leased to mining companies. The state Department of Natural Resources auctions off the right to explore...

Strong storms moved across parts of the Northland on Monday night and early Tuesday morning, bringing torrential rainfall to some areas and prompting several tornado warnings. The tornado warnings -- for the Cable and Seeley areas in Northwestern Wisconsin, and in areas west and...

A concentrated focus on child exploitation has resulted in a federal indictment charging a 37-year-old Two Harbors man with producing child pornography. The single count was unsealed this week as Joel Ray Allard made his initial appearance in U.S.

A concentrated focus on child exploitation has resulted in a federal indictment charging a 37-year-old Two Harbors man with producing child pornography. The single count was unsealed this week as Joel Ray Allard made his initial appearance in U.S.

Two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on the Highway 61 expressway near Two Harbors early Friday. The Minnesota State Patrol reported that the crash happened just after 2 a.m. in the northbound lanes between Larsmont and Isackson roads. A Chevrolet pickup truck traveling...

A 20-year-old man drowned Friday evening while swimming in the Temperance River in Cook County. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported that Pavel Shtrefleng of Eden Prairie, Minn., was swimming in a pool on the Lake Superior side of Minnesota Highway 61, just below the bridge,...