About 70 random barrels will be recovered, sampled and properly disposed as part of a health investigation this summer. More than 1,400 barrels were dumped into the Great Lake during the Cold War.
You may want to avoid this body of water.
The European CDC has warned of a possible significant summer surge fueled by the omicron subvariants.
Matthew Quade's BAC was almost five times over the legal limit when police pulled him over last week.
Police say this was an isolated incident and that the victim and suspect knew each other.
Experts say the subvariant is more transmissible but there is not evidence to suggest it causes more severe disease.
The rescue happened off Park Point Beach Saturday.
Maye Quade gave a speech while in active labor before she ultimately withdrew from the endorsing convention last month to give birth.
New fare includes walking tacos, hand-scooped ice cream and deep-fried pickles.
The Buffalo health clinic shooter is accused of fatally shooting one person and injuring four others last year.
The latest from the state health department.
The driver was in a black 2006 Lincoln MKZ.
According to an American Meteorological Society report, the amount of ice covering all the Great Lakes has dropped more than 70 percent over the past 40 winters. The Duluth News Tribune reports the study doesn't include the 2011-12 season. As of this winter, only about five percent of the Great Lakes froze. The lead researcher says a lack of ice coverage can reduce water levels, damage water quality and accelerate shoreline erosion.
Some of the temperature readings coming in from buoys show the big lake is the warmest it's been in 30 years. In some places it's already 70 degrees and it's likely to keep warming up for another few weeks. Record-breaking summer heat is part of it, but the warm-up actually has its roots in our balmy winter.
A group of brave surfers were spotted hitting the waves on Lake Superior Friday. WDIO in Duluth reports the air temperature was near single digits, but the Great Lake was in the mid-30s. One of the surfers says he's been catching the waves for the past 15 years.
This summer's floods carried all manner of garbage and debris into Lake Superior. And more than 3,000 pounds of it was removed by volunteers during the annual Beach Sweep of September and October. That triples the previous record in the event organized by the Great Lakes Aquarium and the Ocean Conservancy.
Jeffrey Watson was underwater in Lake Superior for at least thirty minutes while swimming with friends in Duluth Monday. His father says the 13-year-old never regained consciousness and his organs were beginning to shut down when the family decided to take him off life support.
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