Christa Lawler

Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce president Matthew Baumgartner faces DWI-related charges after he was found slumped over the wheel in a running vehicle at Taco Bell in Duluth MN.

Matthew Baumgartner had been in the role since 2021. He was arrested July 31.

Matthew Baumgartner, president of the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce now facing drunken driving-related charges for the second time since taking the high-profile job, is no longer with the organization.

Blatnik Bridge demolition will begin in March 2027, with the new bridge opening in October 2031.

The Douglas County District Attorney said Ibrahim Carson was “lawfully entitled” to use deadly force on David Menton, a man with a warrant who was found with a gun beneath him.

Before they became one North Shore city, Agate Bay and Burlington Bay followed very different paths. One became a railroad boomtown with 22 saloons and brothels packed into a single block.

Two Harbors began as separate communities at Agate Bay and Burlington Bay. The arrival of the railroad transformed Agate Bay and created the notorious Whiskey Row before the towns merged in 1907.

From Papua New Guinea to Superior, Wis., the bottom of the right wing of Richard I. Bong’s plane Marge will be on display at the Bong Center museum in the fall.

As Canada and the U.S. accelerate their clash over tariffs, places like International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, are clinging to a longstanding kinship.

International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, cling to kinship even as Canada and the United States accelerate their clash over tariffs.