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1 week ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — Supporters of Safe Bay, a proposed site where people living out of their vehicles may spend the night without any hassle and with access to basic hygiene facilities, gathered in the parking lot of the Vineyard Church on Wednesday afternoon to bolster the congregation’s efforts to host the operation this summer.
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1 week ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — City officials soon may adopt a tougher approach to landlords who fail to address needed repairs. At a public study session after the City Council meeting Tuesday night, city staff walked through Duluth’s current enforcement protocol for rental housing properties and began to discuss the possibility of a more robust course of action moving forward.
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2 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — A trio of city councilors is proposing a new ordinance designed to better inform local renters of their tenant rights. Councilors Terese Tomanek, Roz Randorf and Lynn Marie Nephew have introduced a policy that would require local landlords to inform tenants of the rights and resources that are already available to them to help resolve any issues that may arise with property managers.
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2 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — While Mayor Roger Reinert points to recent strides made to improve the outlook for the city’s downtown, he makes no bones that more work must be done. “The status quo is not acceptable,” he told a crowd of about 120 people gathered at the Greysolon Ballroom on Wednesday morning to address public safety concerns in an area long known as the heart of the city’s business district.
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2 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — The St. Louis County Board of Commissioners called a special meeting Tuesday morning to pass a declaration that recent wildfires should be treated as both an emergency and a disaster. Gov.
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2 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — Amazon opened the doors of its new local delivery station to the public for the first time Tuesday morning, providing local media and officials an initial glimpse inside the 55,000-square-foot facility. The company employs about 80 people at the center, but that could grow by 50%, to around 120 workers, as the mammoth online retailer moves into its busy holiday season, according to Scott Seroka, a regional spokesman for Amazon.
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2 weeks ago | 
wctrib.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — You could consider the rebirth of a cruise line this year a victory lap of sorts for Great Lakes marine travel — an industry the city is betting on to grow. Victory Cruise Lines last planned to call on Duluth before the company’s sale to American Queen Voyages in 2019. That same year, the Victory II was scheduled to make two stops in Duluth, but both trips were scuttled by the change of ownership.
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2 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
DULUTH — David Clanaugh intends to challenge incumbent 4th District City Councilor Tara Swenson in this year's municipal election. He issued a news release Monday announcing plans for a Tuesday noon announcement at the Renee Van Nett Pavilion in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Clanaugh's entry will set up a three-way race, as Swenson previously announced her plans to seek a second term and Brandon Parker announced his bid for the same seat earlier this month.
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3 weeks ago | 
twincities.com | Peter Passi
ELY, Minn. — Blake Freking struggled to recall what day of the week it was Wednesday as he paused to discuss the team effort mounted to slow the spread of the Camp House and Jenkins Creek wildfires from the air. Small wonder. As an aviation officer for the U.S. Forest Service, the days of battling a pair of fast-spreading fires from the Ely Air Attack Base had been a bit of a blur.
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3 weeks ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Peter Passi
BRIMSON — This wasn’t exactly the kind of retirement Har Holmes envisioned. Three weeks ago, he and his wife, Kristie, moved into a home on Tommila Lake, where they planned to spend their retirement years. This summer, the couple aimed to live in their existing summer house, while building what would become their permanent primary dwelling — the home of their dreams — on the 14-acre property.
