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Five Injured In Two Separate Rice Lake Crashes
RICE LAKE, MN (KDAL) - Five people were sent to hospitals with non life threatening injuries following a pair of crashes in t...
Aug 20, 2026
Overturned Truck Blocks Blatnik Bridge Traffic
SUPERIOR, WI (KDAL) - Motorists trying to get to Duluth from Superior on Wednesday morning needed to take the Bong Bridge aft...
Aug 19, 2026
Vacant House A Total Loss In Duluth Fire
DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - Duluth firefighters, who saw smoke and flames coming from a house near their downtown headquarters, respo...
Aug 19, 2026
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Free Glensheen Tours On Sunday
DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - Glensheen in Duluth will hold its annual Community Day on Sunday which will feature free self-guided Chri...
Jan 05, 2024
Grandma's Marathon Is Now 10th Largest In The U-S
DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - For the first time in its 47 year history, Grandma's Marathon has entered the top ten for the largest mar...
Jan 05, 2024
Winter Weather Advisory For Friday Afternoon Through Saturday
DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - The National Weather Service Office in Duluth has issued a Winter Weather Advisory from noon Friday to 6 ...
Jan 04, 2024
Ice Conditions Poor Across The State
ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) - The colder weather moving in will help but recent unseasonably mild weather and some rain has degraded ...
Jan 04, 2024
Duluth-Superior Port Traffic Up In 2023
UNDATED (KDAL) - The Chamber of Marine Commerce says shipping activity for the U-S Great Lakes in 2023 remained consistent wi...
Jan 04, 2024
State
Walz Signs Executive Order Blocking Nonferrous Mining
ELY, MN (Northern News Now/KDAL) - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed an executive order banning non ferrous metal mining...
Aug 19, 2026
Primary Election Results
UNDATED (KDAL) - Minnesota and Wisconsin voters went to the polls on Tuesday to determine who would be on the ballot in the N...
Aug 12, 2026
Duluth Airports Share In MnDOT Safety Upgrade Funds
ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) - The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is awarding 8 million dollars to airports across the...
Aug 04, 2026
DNR Conducting "Operation Dry Water"
ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) - Warm weather will mean an extremely busy 4th of July weekend on the waterways of Minnesota. The Departm...
Jun 30, 2026
Mn DNR Launches New Electronic Licensing System
ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) - The first phase of a new electronic licensing system for anglers, hunters and trappers has been launche...
Jun 11, 2026
Local Sports
Prep Scores and Playoff Update for June 12
Thursday, June 11 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL MINNESOTA STATE TOURNAMENT CLASS AAA - QUARTERFINAL AT CHASKA ATHLETIC PARK Mahtomedi ...
Jun 12, 2026
Prep Scores and Playoff Update for June 10
Tuesday, June 9 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL WISCONSIN PLAYOFFS ALL ROUNDS SINGLE ELIMINATION DIVISION 3 SECTION 1 - SEMIFINAL AT CUM...
Jun 10, 2026
Prep Scores and Playoff Update for June 5
Thursday, June 4 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL MINNESOTA PLAYOFFS SECTION 7AA - CHAMPIONSHIP AT HERMANTOWN Aitkin 1 Duluth Marshall 0 ...
Jun 05, 2026
Prep Scores and Playoff Update for June 4
Wednesday, June 3 HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL MINNESOTA STATE TOURNAMENT AT CASWELL PARK, NORTH MANKATO CLASS AAA - CONSOLATION Oron...
Jun 04, 2026
Prep Scores and Playoff Update for June 3
Tuesday, June 2 HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL MINNESOTA STATE TOURNAMENT AT CASWELL PARK, NORTH MANKATO CLASS AAA - QUARTERFINAL St. F...
Jun 03, 2026
National Sports
MLB roundup: Jacob Misiorowski pitches Brewers past Chris Sale, Braves
Jacob Misiorowski pitched six shutout innings and outdueled Chris Sale in a matchup of National League Cy Young Award candida...
1h ago
Tommy Edman's walkoff single in 10th lifts Dodgers past Pirates
Tommy Edman delivered a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers returned home Friday to earn a ...
2h ago
Dodgers CF Andy Pages (broken hand) out at least 4 weeks
The Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to be without All-Star center fielder Andy Pages for at least a month after he was hi...
4h ago
RB Nick Chubb, 30, announces retirement on social media
Four-time Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb announced his retirement from the NFL in a social media post on Friday. Chubb, 30,...
5h ago
NFL presason roundup: Geno Smith shines as Jets dump Steelers
Geno Smith made the most of his lone drive, completing all of his passes and throwing for a touchdown as the New York Jets ea...
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National News
Romania adopts new measures to boost Danube waters to cool Cernavoda nuclear plant
WARSAW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Romania's National Committee for Emergency Situations approved new measures to boost the water ...
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Texas seeks federal probe of airport washing facilities, Muslim group denounces move
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday sought a federal probe into airport fac...
6h ago
US judge strikes down policy suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 nations
By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration p...
8h ago
US Postal Service issues rules to tighten mail-in voting if court gives OK
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service published a final rule late on Friday to tighten r...
8h ago
Girl dies in hospital days after family drowned off English coast, police say
Aug 21 (Reuters) - A six-year-old Palestinian-British girl, whose parents and sister died earlier this week after getting ...
10h ago
World News
Multiple deaths after UK police car crash, police say
LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Several people have died after a collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England betwee...
42m ago
Iran grants permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz
Aug 22 (Reuters) - Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz foll...
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Imran Khan's party seeks contempt action over jailed leader's hospital move
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The party of Pakistan's jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan filed a contempt p...
1h ago
Ukrainian drones kill several, hit warehouse of Russian online retailer Ozon
Aug 22 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drones killed at least six civilians overnight in a wave of strikes on Russia overnight that als...
1h ago
Analysis-Trump heads into midterms short on foreign policy wins
By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - With the Iran war now at a costly standoff a...
4h ago
Business
Vatican to build €100 million renewable energy plant, sources say
By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Vatican will build a roughly €100 million ($117 million) renewable energ...
2h ago
South Korea ship to test Arctic commercial route amid Western concerns
SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation's first...
2h ago
Judge narrows Ben & Jerry's lawsuit accusing Unilever of silencing social activism
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed major portions of a Ben & Jerry's la...
8h ago
Trump says he did not direct Bessent to intervene in bond market
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not direct Treasury Sec...
10h ago
US Treasury Secretary Bessent to hold press conference on Monday
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference on Monday, according to ...
11h ago
Politics
US Postal Service issues rules to tighten mail-in voting if court gives OK
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service published a final rule late on Friday to tighten r...
8h ago
Supreme Court lets Trump continue work on White House ballroom for now
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump's administratio...
15h ago
Trump administration moves to end attorney group's law school oversight
By Karen Sloan Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Education on Friday moved to strip the American Bar Association of i...
15h ago
Trump seeks to bolster Darline Graham's Senate bid at South Carolina rally
By Jarrett Renshaw, Jacob Bogage and David Morgan MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina, Aug 21 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump cam...
23h ago
Trump, former fixer Michael Cohen have warm interview at political low point for president
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump had a warm public reunion on Thursday with Michael ...
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Philip Morris gets FDA nod for 11 new nicotine pouches
Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had authorized 11 nicotine pouch products recen...
14h ago
US health agencies report 55 cases of E. coli and salmonella infections tied to alfalfa sprouts
Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Friday said they were investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli and salmonel...
14h ago
Scholar Rock withdraws Europe filing for muscle weakness drug, plans resubmission
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Scholar Rock said on Friday it withdrew its European application for the experimental spinal muscular atro...
18h ago
France warns of 300,000 potentially unsafe condoms
PARIS, Aug 21 (Reuters) - French anti-fraud and health agencies issued a warning on Friday against tens of thousands of poten...
18h ago
Somali child hunger crisis deepens as facilities close due to aid cuts, UNICEF says
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 1.9 million children in Somalia are expected to be malnourished this year, with the country seeing ...
20h ago
Science
NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the moon
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other livin...
15h ago
China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places
By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically ...
Aug 21, 2026
Trump signs memo to help drastically boost US commercial space launches
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo to help drastically ...
Aug 20, 2026
3D X-ray imaging unlocks the secrets of the narwhal's spiral tusk
By Will Dunham Aug 20 (Reuters) - In the Middle Ages, narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns blessed with magical powers su...
Aug 20, 2026
Satellite proliferation imperils astronomical observations, study finds
SANTIAGO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - As thousands more satellites enter orbit, astronomers may face mounting difficulties in observin...
Aug 20, 2026
Technology
From science fair to strategic showcase: a decade of China's robot games
BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - It's been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almo...
3h ago
OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%
Aug 21 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more...
12h ago
TikTok agrees to $400 million US children's privacy settlement
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400...
13h ago
Buyout firm Vista explores $3 billion sale of private markets data provider Allvue, sources say
By Amy-Jo Crowley, David French and Milana Vinn LONDON/NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Vista Equity Partners is weighing a poten...
17h ago
Orbital data center startup Starcloud valued at $2.3 billion in latest funding
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Starcloud, a startup building data centers in space, said on Friday it had raised $250 million at a $2....
17h ago
Entertainment
Prince Harry's wife Meghan in talks for role in Guy Ritchie's Netflix series, reports say
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Meghan, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, may be returning to acting with a role in the Netfl...
15h ago
Prime Video to invest more than $2 billion in Latin America through 2030
Aug 20 (Reuters) - Prime Video said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $2 billion in Latin America between 2027 and ...
Aug 20, 2026
US judge rejects Disney bid for quick hearing in FCC lawsuit
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected a request by Disney on Thursday for an urgent heari...
Aug 20, 2026
UK cinemas restricting Meta AI and other smart glasses over piracy concerns
LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Cinema operators in Britain are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled sma...
Aug 20, 2026
Netflix sued by band Demon Hunter over 'KPop Demon Hunters'
By Blake Brittain Aug 19 (Reuters) - Christian metal band Demon Hunter has sued Netflix and concert promoter AEG Presents in ...
Aug 20, 2026
