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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danielle A. Pieratos It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Danielle Alys Pieratos, 36, of Lake Vermilion-Tower, beloved mother, daughter, sister, auntie, niece, cousin and friend, who ...

Protesters lined Sheridan Street in Ely on Saturday to protest the increasingly authoritarian actions of President Trump. Nearly 400 protesters turned out, part of a nationwide protest that drew ...

REGIONAL— While the fate of President Trump’s tariffs are currently stuck in legal limbo for now, it remains to be seen how those assessments will impact retailers here in the North … ...

REGIONAL- The North Woods boys golf team gave the field a run for its money at Tuesday’s 7A sectional tournament in McGregor, with state-tourney qualifier Gage Aune pacing the team to third in the ...

REGIONAL— Scenic Rivers Health Services CEO Keith Harvey expressed incredulity this week in the wake of passage of a U.S. House spending and policy bill that would make dramatic cuts to Medicaid and, ...

ELY— When it comes to messaging, timing is key— and it couldn’t have been better for the Ely Climate Group’s presentation here last Wednesday on the human health impacts of extreme heat and wildfire ...