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Arctic Explorer Will Steger speaks at the Living Green Expo
This weekend marked the first annual "Live Green Expo" in Duluth, and among the booths, photographers, and artwork, was one of the Northland's most prominent voices for the preservation of the arctic.
Meteorologist Shannon Murphy was in attendance and has all the green highlights. More
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Grandma's Minnesota Mile Race
A 1- mile distance race is a far cry from the traditional 26- mile Grandma's Marathon, but racers from around the country turned out for the annual sprint. More
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Sutherland, Wizbicki ready for Border Battle
Former Viking Doug Sutherland and former Packer Alex Wizbicki talk about their respective teams outlooks. More
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Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae's Impact on Northland
The financial world is still reacting to the news that the Federal Government is taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. But what does the take over mean for Northlanders... Trevor Roy spoke with a financial analyst and has more. More
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UMD FB improves to (2-0)
On Saturday night, 17th ranked UMD rolled past Missouri Western State. Joe Dufek has the highlights. More
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New Duluth Clinic in Lakeside Opens Monday
The new clinic replaces a hundred year-old Movie Theater that was converted into the clinic years ago. It opens on Monday. Meanwhile, click here for a sneak peak. More
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1st Annual Live Green Expo
The 1st Annual Live Green Expo provided the community with products and tips on how to live an environmentally responsible lifestyle. More
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Harvest Fest In Duluth
Green energy and sustainable farming are Eco–Terms that may be confusing for some, but most can appreciate and old fashioned harvest festival.
Trevor Roy was at a harvest fest today and has more.
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Week two of the Prep Football Season complete
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Balancing Duluth's Budget
Duluth Mayor Don Ness has announced his plan to get rid of next year's eight-and-a-half million dollar deficit.
Joel Runck tells us what this means for property taxes. More
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Possible SMDC Strike
A vote has given 3-hundred technical workers from Saint Mary's Duluth Clinic Health system permission to strike. United Steelworks local 9460 represents these employees, and agreed earlier this week to allow the USW negotiating committee to authorize a possible strike. More
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Saturday Energy Fair
This will be an energetic weekend in Duluth.
There are all kinds of energy efficient events going on
At Bayfront Festival Park, the Lake Superior Energy Association and Sustainable Farmers Association are holding a free energy fair. More
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Duluth East boys and girls win Superior cross country
Duluth East boys and girls win cross country meet in Superior. Tom Hansen has the details. More
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Northwestern to open new football field
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Sites And Sounds Of RNC
The fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention will soon be over.
LeAnn Wallace has been in Saint Paul all day and has more. More
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Four Vying For Boyle's Seat
With the last day of conventions coming to an end, a race in Wisconsin is just heating up.
Trevor Roy was in Superior today and attended a debate between the candidates of the contentious race. More
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2 Schools Finished
Construction on two schools as part of the controversial long range facilities plan in Duluth is complete.
Improvements on Stowe and Lakewood Elementary Schools began in May... and we're just finishing up today. More
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Duluth School Lunches
No one is exempt from the pressure of rising fuel and food prices... including Duluth Public Schools... a little tweaking, and teamwork was needed to prepare to feed thousands of students each day.
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Cirrus Design Cuts 100+ Jobs
In a surprising development Cirrus Design of Duluth said Thursday that they're cutting more than 100 jobs. More
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CSS women's soccer wins first game on new field.
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In The Pit: Labor Day Shootout
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Multi-Million Dollar Expansion In Carlton County
A multi-million dollar expansion in Carlton County to house the states most dangerous sex offenders is close to finishing its first construction stage. Trevor Roy was in Moose Lake and has an update on the construction. More
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Elementary Open House
The bulk of students in the Duluth School District will hit the bus stops tomorrow to begin the first day of classes.
To help ease first-day anxiety, several elementary schools in the district hosted open houses on Wednesday.
Joel Runck was at Lowell Elementary and tells us what students are expecting.
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Your Green Life: "Rain Gardens and Rain Barrels"
Summer temperatures were close to normal this season, but after a very wet start during the month of June, it left August thirsty for rain.
During hot and dry times like this, up to 40 percent of household water gets used in the yard.
But there are ways to conserve water like collecting excess rainwater.
Steps like this are important for the environment as meteorologist Shannon Murphy explains in, "Your Green Life."
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Google Launches New Web Browser
Google is always coming up with new programs and add-ons, available for download... and now Google has launched a free web Browser. More
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Northland Company Helps Pilots
Airplane pilots of the future are getting their start in the sky courtesy of help from a Northland company. More
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Judge Rules With City On Layoffs
A judge's ruling Wednesday makes the layoff of 165 city workers final.
Saint Louis County District Judge Eric Hylden denied a temporary restraining order filed by the city worker's union. More
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Greenway volleyball knocks off Two Harbors
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Hermantown rolls past Grand Rapids in girls soccer
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Cyber Bullying Is A Concern As School Starts Back Up
These days, kids are in constant communication with one another through phones, text messages, and e-mail.
But this continual accessibility to each other can lead to abusive behavior.
Laura Langemo tells us how cyber bullying is becoming a growing problem among our youth.
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School Board Says 'No' To Red Plan Vote
The Duluth School Board said 'no' again to Gary Glass' proposal of putting a the School District's Long Range Facilities Plan up for a vote.
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Duluth Police Bust 71 Parties
The start of the college school year brought Duluth police out in full force.
Thursday thru Saturday last week alone, police broke up 71 parties for underage drinking and disturbing the peace.
Authorities want everyone to know: that behavior won't be tolerated.
Duluth police are ramping-up patrols throughout the college district.
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Future Of Duluth Fire Department A Hot Topic At Chamber Forum
Speakers at the forum included Fire Chief John Strongitharm, a representative from the fire fighters' union and city councilor Jim Stauber. More
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WI State Patrol Man Wins Top Honor
A Wisconsin State Patrolman has won top honors in a competition featuring 54 motor vehicles inspectors from all over North America. More
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The City Of Duluth Goes To Court
165 Duluth city workers are anxiously awaiting a District Court judge's decision. City union leaders from AFSCME filed suit late last week to try to stop the city from laying off city employees. The case came before Judge Eric Hylden Tuesday and LeAnn Wallace was in the court room. More
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The Juno Effect
With controversy brewing over Bristol Palin's pregnancy... it's something people are getting used to seeing in the media.
Many wonder if all this attention is making pregnancy a little too enticing to young girls. More
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Duluth's King Of Movie Trailers Dies
After voicing five - thousand movie and television trailers, The "king" of the movie trailers has died. More
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Six People Hospitalized After Fight
Six people were hospitalized after a fight broke out on Duluth's hillside Monday night. More
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Jungle Boy loses in Tower
On Sunday, Zach "Jungle Boy" Walters fell to Shawn "The Hit" Hammack in a bout held in Tower. Joe Dufek has the details. More
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Weather Heats Up Summer Tourism Season
With Labor Day almost behind us and many schools starting classes Tuesday, the unofficial end of summer is here. But while Autumn doesn't begin for another few weeks, officials are already measuring the progress of the summer tourism season. More
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Grant Helps Northlanders Find Employment
A new class in Machine Tool Technology for Northstar Aerospace employees begins this Friday. Lake Superior College and Northstar Aerospace received a $200,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. More
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Reducing The Deer Population
The whitetail deer population in Minnesota has been expanding in recent years. Each spring, with the birth of the fawns, there are an estimated 900,000 to a million deer, across the state, living both in the woods and in town. New regulations for the 2008 deer hunting season aim to reduce that expanding population. More
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Bovey Farmer's Day Celebration
The Iron Range town of Bovey continued a long-standing tradition this Labor Day weekend. More
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Well Known Democrats Attend Labor Day Picnic
Here in the Northland, a few well known Democrats gathered at a Labor Day Picnic at Bayfront Park in Dultuh. U.S Senate Candidate Al Franken and U.S Congressman Jim Oberstar were here to announce the proposal of a new stimulus package. More
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AFSCME To Block Duluth Layoffs?
The fate of 165 jobs in the city of Duluth hang on a legal decision by a St. Louis County District Court judge.
City Worker union AFSCME has filed suit trying to block the layoffs of 165 city workers. More
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Cloquet's 89th Annual Labor Day Celebration
Cloquet's 89th Annual Labor Day celebration drew a huge crowd Monday. LeAnn Wallace reports hundreds lined Cloquet's Main Street to enjoy the sites and sounds of this year's parade. More
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Gustav's Shadow Looms over RNC
The spotlight that was supposed to shine this week on the Twin Cities has dimmed thanks to Hurricane Gustav. More
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Northland Volunteers in Gustav's Path
With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the gulf coast states, volunteers from the Northland Chapter of the Red Cross are already in Louisiana preparing for the killer storms arrival. Trevor Roy spoke with Red Cross officials and volunteers bracing themselves for Gustav. More
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CSS open Saints Field with victory
In the very first game ever played at the newly resurfaced Saints Field, CSS men's soccer team knocked off Hamline on Saturday. More
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UMD cage Golden Bears in opener
In college football, #22 UMD opened the season on Saturday, by shutting out Concordia St. Paul 40-0 on Saturday. It marked UMD's first game back in the NSIC. More
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Pride Fest '08
While the skies were blue and the clouds were few, rainbows of all shapes and sizes wound their way through Duluth's Bayfront Park for the 22nd annual Gay Pride Festival.
Trevor Roy was out today and has more. More
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Football Friday kicks off
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College Party Crackdown
Twin Ports college students are back in the Northland - gearing up for another semester of school.
But studying isn't the only thing they'll be taking part in.
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Family Speaks About Tragedy
A Duluth Township family spoke Friday morning about the tragic loss of their three-year-old girl in a house fire Tuesday. Sarah Johnson lost her life Tuesday night when a fire broke out in her grandmother's home. More
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McCain Picks Palin
The youngest person elected to Alaska's top office is now on the McCain presidential ticket. Senator John McCain announced his selection of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his Republican running mate Friday. More
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Casino's Rare Location Benefits Tribe And City
Fond–Du–Luth is a one–of–a–kind native casino...in the heart of downtown Duluth. A rare site to see in a downtown area...but possible because of an agreement the Fond–du–Lac tribe made with the city in the early 90's it's able to stay. As LeAnn Wallace reports, the agreement has mutually beneficial and the city of Duluth is planning now to continue benefiting from casino revenue.
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I-Falls visits Hibbing for swim meet
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Hibbing volleyball knocks off Hermantown
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Cook falls to AlBrook
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Cherry knocks off Tower-Soudan to open season
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Investigation Into Fire Continues
Investigators continue to search for the cause of a house fire that killed a three year old girl. More
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New Housing Complex In The Works For Vets
For many veterans, returning to civilian life after a war is a battlefield in itself.
With the shutdown of the Duluth YWCA this spring, many veterans have been left with no place to live.
But as Joel Runck tells us a new housing complex in Duluth will fill the gap- providing a place vets can call home.
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Back To School Move In
Across the nation colleges are filling up with retuning students and incoming freshman.
In Superior the University of Wisconsin–Superior started moving students into their new home away from home today.
Trevor Roy is on campus at his alma mater. More
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Former Prisoner Of War Recalls McCain As Cell Mate
It's been more than 30 years since Retired Lieutenant Commander David Wheat of Duluth was held captive in Vietnam as a prisoner of war. Not a day has gone by without some memory of the years he spent in captivity. Wheat found comfort in his fellow P–O–W's...
Among those prisoners was Senator John McCain
LeAnn Wallace sat down with Lt. Commander Wheat today... More
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Duluth School District To Accept Alternative Plan
Duluth Public Schools has been ordered to accept a petition calling for a vote on a potentially cheaper alternative to the district's long range facilities plan. More
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March For Peace Held In Duluth's Central Hillside
A group of more than seventy community members gathered today in Duluth's central hillside. More
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$916 Million Project Planned Near Ely
A new 916 million dollar project, being planned near Ely, would create as many as one thousand jobs in the area. More
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Anderson waived by Sun
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Duluth Port Having Banner Year
Minnesota has a law that says twenty five percent of the state's energy has to come from renewable sources by the year 2025. More
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Local Basketball stars enjoying offseason
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In The Pit: Darrel Nelson
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Grand Rapids Mill Closes
An Iron Range mill that had not been in operation since 2006 is now permanently closed. More
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7B Seat Debate
Seven legislative candidates tried to inch a little closer to sitting in Mike Jaros' state representative seat Wednesday evening.
Candidates for the state House seven-"B" district will took part in a forum at Morgan Park's Good Fellowship Community Center.
Joel Runck gives us a breakdown of the candidates. More
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Fire Destroys Superior Home
An unoccupied home in the Town of Superior caught fire early Wednesday morning. More
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LSC - New Aviation Training Program
Lake Superior College (L.S.C.) is starting a new Aviation Training School.
At a special meeting this morning the Duluth Airport Authority approved a five - year lease for hangar 103 on airport grounds. More
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Child Dies In Northland Fire
A house fire in Duluth Township took the life of a 3-year old girl last night, despite her grandmother's desperate efforts to save her. The blaze broke-out at 1557 West Knife Road. More
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Greyhound football nearing season start
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Denfeld tops Zimmerman in boy's soccer
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