TOWER— Tower Ambulance Director Steve Altenburg insists the city’s ambulance service will continue to operate in the black even when the service shifts to a paid on-call staffing system, … ...

GREENWOOD TWP- During a meeting that stretched over two-and-a-half hours, the Greenwood Town Board dealt with a long list of issues in addition to the fire department policies detailed in last week’s ...

ELY—Nearly 400 people lined Sheridan Street here last Saturday to express their strong displeasure with the authoritarian actions and policies of President Donald Trump. The protest, which stretched ...

ELY—In a stunning about-face, the city council here voted 5-2 to send a letter to the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources in opposition to a grant application by the White Iron Chain ...

REGIONAL- State officials are warning Minnesotans to steer clear of scam text messages pretending to be from the Department of Public Safety or the state’s motor vehicle division. The texts claim the ...

TOWER- Lloyd McIntire has been named as this year’s Fourth of July parade marshal. Lloyd was chosen for this long career in the Tower business community, as well as his strong record of community ...

REGIONAL- Northeast Range/Ely’s Carena DeBeltz and North Woods’ Gage Aune competed against the best in high school Class A golf last week when they participated in the Minnesota State High School ...

NETT LAKE- A small group of Bois Forte band members came together at the tribal government center in Nett Lake on Tuesday to learn more about the band’s carbon sequestration initiative for 28,000 ...

TOWER- When a man purporting to be collecting donations for the scholarship fund for the VFW in Cook came to the Tower Café last week, owner Jen McDonough’s spidey-sense awakened. “He said he was ...

REGIONAL— While fingerprints are used mostly to fight crime, a different kind of fingerprint is helping researchers better understand the sources of the chronic turbidity that has long impaired the ...

GREENWOOD TWP- Natural shorelines are essential for preserving a lake’s water quality, and lakeshore owners in our area got a chance to learn some easy and low-cost ways to preserve or re-create ...

BABBITT- Residents here packed the city council chambers last Thursday morning for a two-hour planning commission public hearing on a proposal to create an organic cannabis cultivation and ...