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Sheriff’s office investigates burned cabins north of Duluth

On April 12, 2024, Duluth resident Nicholas Voltzke visited a cabin he owns in a remote location on Three Lakes Road, 35 miles north of Duluth, and found it...

Amid fraud lawsuit and breach-of-contract claims, London East developer declares bankruptcy

The London East development is a row of townhomes in varying stages of construction along London Road, just east of Glensheen Mansion. Construction activity at the development halted in...

City to raze two burned Goat Hill dwellings

On June 24, 2024, the Duluth City Council authorized a $102,000 expenditure to raze the ruins of two buildings in Duluth’s Goat Hill neighborhood. Goat Hill is a small, steep...

Butler Avenue residents frustrated by Superior agenda blunders

On June 20, 2024, at the regular monthly meeting of Superior’s Public Safety Committee, several Butler Avenue residents were present. The committee planned to consider a resolution which would...

Duluth police open Les Grumdahl perjury investigation

On March 5, 2024, the Monitor reported on the case of Holly Brown, a Kenwood woman facing the imminent loss of her home. After carefully reviewing the evidence, we...

Silver Bay residents raise blight concerns

At the June 5, 2024, meeting of the Silver Bay Planning and Zoning Commission, the room was crowded with residents. Commission Chair Steve VanHouse (sitting behind a “Mayor Wade...

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Commissioner Musolf’s stalker has history of erratic behavior

On May 6, 2026, a union business manager working on a project in Sioux City, Iowa, called the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office to...

Tallas Bay to be dredged again

Located below Spirit Mountain on the St. Louis River, Tallas Bay is a long, narrow corridor of water which separates the river shoreline from...

Gnesen Township supervisor damages broadband line while digging trench to save township money

Gnesen Township, 13 miles north of Duluth, had been contemplating the installation of lighting for the town hall flagpole for some time. When Township...

Superior landfill gas-to-data project terminated over a year ago

In November of 2023, the City of Superior entered into a contract with Vespene Energy, a California company interested in constructing a small data...

How the data center guided the new Hermantown Comprehensive Plan

The most important document underlying Google’s proposed data center in Adolph is the City of Hermantown’s 2045 Comprehensive Plan. The city would not have...