3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (231+ words) My thanks go out to Gov. Tim Walz for his Aug. 18 executive order temporarily protecting the watershed containing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from copper-nickel mining. Pyrrhotite is believed to have caused the stainless-steel bolts holding up the roof…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (484+ words) SILVER CREEK — Phase two of the Highway 61 tunnel lighting project will begin Tuesday, Sept. 8, with crews completing remaining upgrades on the Lafayette Bluff and Silver Creek tunnels. The $7.3 million initiative previously installed new, high-efficiency LED lighting systems, which were designed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (205+ words) Stanford Digital Economy Lab's August update reported that the employment shortfall for U.S. workers ages 22-25 in highly AI-exposed occupations widened from 15% at the July 2025 data vintage to about 19% by June. Reduced hiring accounts for most of the adjustment. As AI handles…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (250+ words) News-Tribune, Aug. 31, 1926 Arrowhead Airways of Duluth will open negotiations with the Canadian government to carry mail between Winnipeg, Duluth, St. Paul, and Chicago. An 800-foot runway, under construction for the past two months, will be completed this week about five…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (199+ words) Duluth News Tribune Reader's View: Mining editorials ignored realities There’s a special kind of disconnect in advocating for copper-sulfide mines while simultaneously defending the businesses and jobs they threaten to destroy. It must be difficult for the News Tribune, whose…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (420+ words) Debates over data centers are raging from coast to coast, with one axiom: Secrecy and behind-the-scenes political pressure around data center public policy decisions are surefire ways to lose whatever public support the growing industry has. Then, in a remarkable…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (672+ words) CARLTON — Applause erupted at the Carlton County Transportation Building Tuesday as the Carlton County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on the construction of data centers within the county. “The purpose of the pause is to protect the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (328+ words) Homes have been evacuated as a precaution after a gas leak occurred during work on Enbridge’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in rural northern Wisconsin. The incident occurred around 10 a.m. near Sitan Road in the town of Saxon in rural…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (493+ words) FORBES — State regulators fined an Iron Range mining company for violating its air permit. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said United Taconite, owned by Cleveland-Cliffs, must pay nearly $23,000 for failing to test whether its particulate matter emissions at its Fairlane…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (485+ words) FINLAND — As the number of severe weather events continues to grow both locally and nationally, project engineers are adopting a more forward-thinking mindset when designing infrastructure to withstand them. “The old rules of our infrastructure design don't necessarily apply anymore,…...