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Monitor wins three state awards, including special cash prize for investigative reporting

Duluth Monitor - June 16, 2026

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Tyler Edwards sentenced for murder of Maxton Gudowski

June 16, 2026

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Homegrown Music Festival directors resign, leaving confusing financial picture

June 10, 2026

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Tyler Edwards sentenced for murder of Maxton Gudowski

John Ramos - June 16, 2026

On June 15, 2026, Sixth Judicial District Judge Jill...

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Homegrown Music Festival directors resign, leaving confusing financial picture

John Ramos - June 10, 2026

On June 2, 2026, Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival (HGMF)...

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Proposal to eliminate 4th Street parking spaces stirs concern

John Ramos - June 7, 2026

At the June 5, 2026 meeting of the Duluth...

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Five companies file mechanics liens against Urbane 218 as building nears completion

John Ramos - May 29, 2026

On Dec. 18, 2025, Duluth Economic Development Authority Director...

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Two wrongful death lawsuits against Cirrus Aircraft moved to St. Louis County

John Ramos - May 24, 2026

Within the past year, two active lawsuits against Cirrus...

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Convicted murderer appeals sentence, receives longer sentence

John Ramos - May 19, 2026

A man convicted of murdering three Duluth men in...

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Hayward varsity boys basketball coach who filed whistleblower complaint...

John Ramos - April 28, 2026

The Hayward basketball coach who filed a whistleblower complaint...

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Hayward

Hayward school district covers up basketball coach’s complaints

John Ramos - January 24, 2026

For three years, Matthew Lobitz was involved with the...

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Chair of Title VI Committee accuses Monitor of “hound[ing]...

John Ramos - January 6, 2026

The American Indian Parent Advisory Committee (AIPAC) is one...

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Proctor

City of Proctor failed to disclose $850,000 discount on...

Mark A. Baker - December 24, 2025

In the summer of 2024, project developer NGP LLC...

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Grievance hearing exposes dysfunction on American Indian Parent Advisory...

John Ramos - December 1, 2025

A Nov. 19, 2025 post on the Facebook page...

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Airports

Bills moving through Minnesota Legislature would deliver hefty tax...

John Ramos - May 15, 2025

Two bills currently moving through the Minnesota House of...

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Family of Maxton Gudowski relieved to see charges filed...

John Ramos - April 24, 2025

On April 23, 2025, in St. Louis County District...

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Douglas County

Former Superior Teachers Union president charged with drunk driving,...

John Ramos - April 11, 2025

At 11 p.m. on March 22, 2025, the Superior...

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Superior

Superior murder trial postponed until October, due to delayed ballistics report

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As Mayor Paine asserts greater control over Superior Housing Authority, federal agency investigates

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OIR report flags flawed investigation, nepotism in Superior Police Department, leaves broader questions unanswered

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NDAs of the Northland

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ARCO Coffee facilities closed due to ongoing fire code violations

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Dump truck operator who ran red light in Allouez has 40 traffic violations

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Shiprock Management charged Superior tenant $60/month to cover city’s $10.75/month garbage and recycling fee

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Gotta Be Superior website misleads visitors with stock images

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Manion Truss president says he did not deceive workers about plant closure

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Manion Truss to close Dec. 19, eliminating 43 jobs

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Mayor Paine halted zoning application and subsequent land sale, lawsuit alleges

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Mayor of Superior proactively bans NDAs minutes after fulfilling Monitor’s data request for NDAs

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Federal judge threatens Mr. O’s lawyer with “significant repercussions” in flawed lawsuit

Duluth Monitor - July 14, 2024

On June 10, 2024, the Monitor reported that a...

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Mr. O’s defamation lawsuit dismissed

Duluth Monitor - June 10, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Monitor reported that the...

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Lake County

Return of the underwater hotel

John Ramos - May 2, 2024

Some stories never go away. To recap, in 2022, Two...

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Mr. O sues News Tribune for defamation

John Ramos - March 28, 2024

On Feb. 22, 2024, in United States District Court...

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Monitor wins three state awards, including special cash prize for investigative reporting

On June 16, 2026, at the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual awards ceremony in St. Paul, Duluth Monitor Publisher John Ramos won awards in three categories for articles published...

Duluth Monitor - June 16, 2026

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Tyler Edwards sentenced for murder of Maxton Gudowski

On June 15, 2026, Sixth Judicial District Judge Jill Eichenwald sentenced Tyler Edwards to 17 years in prison for the murder of Maxton Gudowski. Edwards was arrested in July...

John Ramos - June 16, 2026

DULUTH

Homegrown Music Festival directors resign, leaving confusing financial picture

On June 2, 2026, Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival (HGMF) Co-directors Cory Jezierski and Dereck Murphy-Williams resigned their positions, leaving behind “years of unreported income” for the board of directors...

John Ramos - June 10, 2026

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Proposal to eliminate 4th Street parking spaces stirs concern

At the June 5, 2026 meeting of the Duluth Parking Commission, Senior City Engineer Alex Popp presented the city’s proposed plan to reconstruct ten and a half blocks of...

John Ramos - June 7, 2026

Hermantown

Remaining two residents ordered to leave beleaguered Hermantown trailer park

In December of 2024, due to ongoing building code violations at Hermantown’s Maple Field Trailer Park, the owner, Steven Schneeberger, was charged with six misdemeanors. Newspapers documented trailers collapsing...

John Ramos - June 2, 2026

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Hello Readers, Welcome to Duluth’s newest news publication, the Duluth Monitor. We’re living in the future now, so we’ve decided to part ways with the...

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