IRRRB reworks loan to Excelsior Energy
Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board members will be asked on Monday to approve a plan to restructure the agency’s $9.5 million loan made years ago to Excelsior Energy, the controversial and still unbuilt electrical plant.Duluth News Tribune, 06/14/2013
10 years after disappearance, 'Beaner' still not home, not forgotten
Ten years ago today, just after 4:30 in the afternoon, 5-year-old LeeAnna Warner walked away barefoot from her family’s home in Chisholm heading to a nearby friend’s house to play. No one has seen LeeAnna Warner since.Duluth News Tribune, 06/14/2013
Iron Range board reworks loan to still-unbuilt power plant
Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board members will be asked on Monday to approve a plan to restructure the agency’s $9.5 million loan made years ago to Excelsior Energy, the controversial and still unbuilt electrical plant.Duluth News Tribune, 06/13/2013
Putting a face on a cold case in Hermantown
More than 37 years after a human skeleton was found near a yard in Hermantown, officials hope a computer-enhanced facial reconstruction of what the man might have looked like will bring someone forward to claim him.Duluth News Tribune, 06/13/2013
Hermantown police put face on cold case
The 1976 discovery of a man’s skeleton in Hermantown remains unsolved. Police today unveiled a clay bust of what the man might have looked like at the time of his death.Duluth News Tribune, 06/12/2013
St. Louis County commissioners debate funding for north Conservation District
St. Louis County commissioners on Tuesday considered cutting off funding for a county conservation agency, calling its primary employee a “renegade” wetland cop who is harassing northern landowners.Duluth News Tribune, 06/12/2013
New option offered for Highway 53 in Virginia
The saga of where to re-route U.S. Highway 53 in Virginia took another turn Tuesday when the Minnesota Department of Transportation released yet another possible easterly route.Duluth News Tribune, 06/12/2013
12 workers to be hired by St. Louis County to handle enrollees of Affordable Care Act
St. Louis County commissioners on Tuesday agreed to hire a dozen new workers to handle the influx of thousands of county residents expected to enroll in the new federal health-care system starting later this year.Duluth News Tribune, 06/12/2013
MnDOT floats another re-route option for Highway 53 in Virginia
The new route would involve pumping water out of the old Rochleau mine pit lake, exposing an isthmus of land in the abandoned iron ore mine between two deep pits that have filled with water.Duluth News Tribune, 06/11/2013
St. Louis County Board considers cutting funding to agency with 'overzealous' employee
St. Louis County Commissioners today considered cutting off funding for a county conservation agency, calling its primary employee a “renegade” wetland cop who is harassing northern landowners.Duluth News Tribune, 06/11/2013
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