The Duluth News Tribune reports state health officials found more than a dozen additional cases by checking death records in other states for former Iron Range residents who moved out of Minnesota.
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Todd Bol had been battling pancreatic cancer.
Props to the person who compared Kyle Rudolph to a cinnamon streusel dessert pizza.
Curtis LeMair was a star wrestler at Prior Lake High School.
The 19th Century property was built for former St. Paul Archbishop John Ireland.
El Nino will have an impact, forecasters say.
The jackpot for the Friday draw has swelled to $900 million.
The file revealed no allegations of abuse against Keith Ellison, but detailed his ex-wife battle with illness.
Breaking news: Adam Thielen is "actually" good at football.
The coach walks right through the players as they run onto the field.
The assaults happened in Twin Cities hotels and even in his squad car.
The Associated Press reports new technology will allow miners to reach down nearly 4,000 feet into the earth to tap into possibly one of the largest untapped nickel and copper mines in the world. Twin Metals executives say the project will bring thousands of new jobs to the Iron Range.
Responding to Delta Airlines' impending removal of air services to Hibbing, city officials are stressing the flight-traffic need for the Iron Range community of 16,000. They claim the city's iron-ore industry it too dependent on the airline to be left grounded. A city council member says "If that isn’t greed, what is it?" Delta recently announced plans to scale-back or drop service to 24 small market cities nationwide.
The Duluth News Tribune reports the $297 million deal could bring anywhere from 200 to 400 new jobs to northern Minnesota.
The duck and goose hunting season is underway in Minnesota. Opening weekend seemed to be generally successful, apart from an accident on the Iron Range that left an Eveleth teenager injured. Last year 89,000 hunters took to the state's lakes and wetlands in search of waterfowl.
"Yes, it did happen," the CEO of Virginia Regional Medical Center tells the Mesabi Daily News after hospital staff brought a mother the wrong newborn to breast-feed. Both families were upset. The Daily News reports the mother moved rooms and hospital staff failed to check the baby's bracelet with the mother's.
April showers turned into 11 inches of heavy, wet, power-line-breaking snow and folks on the Iron Range are still trying to get the electricity back on. 14,000 customers lost service in the Grand Rapids and Mountain Iron service areas. At least the roads are passable enough to allow schools to reopen.
