Bun Carlson's seat sat conspicuously empty as the Cloquet City Council meeting convened Tuesday. Carlson, the Ward 1 councilor for the past six years, died Jan. 12, at age 68. Mayor Roger Maki opened ...

The first half of last Friday's boys basketball matchup between Esko and Barnum was tight with Esko managing to stake themselves to a seven- point lead. Then Esko came out and got on an offensive roll ...

For the second year in a row, winter weather has been a challenge for the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton alpine ski teams, with Monday’s meet at Mont du Lac cancelled due to frigid temperatures. Head coach Ryan ...

Minnesota Power crews restored power Tuesday to 2,500 customers in the Barnum, Moose Lake and Sturgeon Lake areas who were impacted by an outage caused by the bitterly cold temperatures that morning ...

Gordy Sather of Cloquet earned a $25 gift certificate to Outdoor Advantage for being spotted with twin "I Think Knot" bumper stickers on his truck. He reads the weekly newspaper for what he called the ...

As the state’s plans to license legal cannabis dispensaries continue to be delayed, Thomson Township officials are taking steps toward deciding how the township will handle cannabis business ...

The St. Olaf Band, conducted by Dr. Henry L. Dorn, will perform at Cloquet High School at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, during its 2025 winter tour. Founded in 1891, the St. Olaf Band, from St. Olaf ...

The Chippewa Steel swept the Minnesota Wilderness in a weekend series last week. Chippewa took a 6-3 victory Friday night in Chippewa Falls and followed with a 5-2 win Saturday in Cloquet. Those ...

With two-and-a-half years of his four-year term behind him, Robert Abramowski resigned from the position of secretary/treasurer of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa last week, effective ...

The Cloquet Area Fire District board, with eyes on breaking ground on a new building this fall, unanimously declared its intent to bond for a Station 1 replacement at its 22nd Street property. A ...

January is National Blood Donor Month. The Red Cross reports that someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion every two seconds. It is vital for cancer treatments, chronic illnesses and ...

JR Bents and Gentry Olson took a moment to reminisce during a break in the action at a basketball exhibition between Cloquet's "unified" gym class and their counterparts from a similar team in Bemidji ...