(Minneapolis, MN) -- The Minnesota Department of Public Safety will be conducting checkpoints this holiday weekend throughout the entire state. Law enforcement also plans to ... More
(Minneapolis, MN) -- The Minnesota Department of Public Safety will be conducting checkpoints this holiday weekend throughout the entire state. Law enforcement also plans to bump up street patrols in an effort to nab drivers who decide to get behind the wheel while impaired. During the last three Labor Day weekends ...More
(Undated) -- The fall bear season opens today and the D-N-R is asking hunters not to take radio-collared or ear-tagged animals. Researcher Dave Garshelis (gar-SHELL'-iss) says it is not illegal to shoot these animals because in some cases hunters cannot see the collar, but they're asking people to try ...More
(Duluth, MN0 -- A northeastern Minnesota economist gives the region good grades on economic progress this year. Tony Barrett says many high-profile events in Duluth brought in the tourist dollars this summer - and shipping is much better. Overall he says the region is recovering from a dismal 2009 with everything looking ...More
(Grand Rapids, MN) -- A Grand Rapids woman faces criminal vehicular homicide charges for a crash that killed a motorcyclist last Sunday. Thirty-nine-year-old Gretchen Watne [[WOT'-nee]] is accused of causing the death of 63-year-old Ken Dvorak while driving in a grossly negligent manner. The criminal complaint says Watne had been ...More
(Duluth, MN) -- A one-day strike looks more likely after talks between Saint Mary's Duluth Clinic and its nurses broke off Wednesday afternoon with no progress. The main dispute appears to be over nurse-to-patient ratios. Nurses spokesman John Nemo (NEE-moe) says negotiators for the hospital told the union their last ...More
(Duluth, MN) -- Negotiators for the nurses union and Saint Mary's Duluth Clinic head back to the bargaining table today, one week after the nurses authorized their union to call a one-day strike which has not yet been set. St. Mary's Duluth Clinic spokeswoman Kim Kaiser says they hope ...More
(Duluth, MN) -- Police say it looks like an accident but they'll need more time to determine how a 48-year-old woman died near a Duluth paper mill. The body of the unidentified Duluth resident was found on railroad tracks about 9:00 Monday morning. Police are asking anyone with information ...More
(Grand Rapids, MN) -- A Coleraine man is dead after a head-on collision between a car and motorcycle near Grand Rapids Sunday afternoon. The Itasca County sheriff says a cycle driven by 63-year-old Ken Dvorak was traveling northbound when a car crossed the centerline. Dvorak died at the scene. The driver ...More