Tuesday Nordic Skiing – at Cloquet, 5 p.m. Boys Hockey – at Proctor, 7 p.m. Game Notes: The Class 1A/No. 1-ranked Hawks will be looking to rebound from a 4-0 loss at Shakopee last Friday, their first shutout loss since 2015. In fairness, Hermantown (6-2-2) was playing its third
Duluth East boys basketball coach Rhett McDonald on his young and quickly improving team, which has won two of its last three including a 90-81 victory over North Branch in the Owatonna Holiday Tournament Saturday – "Coming into this season, we knew we had a lot of holes to fill
Fargo Force forward Zam Plante has recorded 10 points, including five goals, in his last six games. The 5-foot-9, 170-pound Bulldogs recruit has 14 goals and 30 points in 23 games overall. Issac Howard, a prized, NHL first-round draft pick who bolted from the Bulldogs program after his freshman season,
Hermantown went 1-1 in a pair of Delano boys basketball holiday tournament games last week, losing to Delano 85-61 before blitzing Monticello 80-63. The Hawks (5-5), who are led by 6-foot-5 senior power forward Abe Soumis, will visit Rock Ridge at 7:15 p.m. Friday and face Becker in
The Vikings on Saturday placed linebacker Troy Dye on Injured Reserve ahead of hosting the Packers in Week 17. Dye has been a core special teams player for Minnesota since his selection in 2020. He's played 296 special teams snaps across all 15 Vikings games this season. The
Cloquet-Esko-Carlton and Duluth Denfeld will play for the Heritage Holiday Classic high school boys hockey championship at 3:30 p.m. today at Sill Arena in Duluth's Friendly West End. Both teams have won their first two games in the three-day, eight-team event, with the Lumberjacks defeating Apple
For the first time in the event’s history, Grandma’s Marathon has cracked the top 10 list of largest 26.2-mile road races in the United States. With 6,690 finishers in its 2023 race, Grandma’s Marathon moved up two spots from a year ago and now sits
By Dana Kazel Road conditions that are more typical for April during spring thaw are happening now in December on St. Louis County roads. Excessive rain and warm temperatures are deteriorating gravel roads, and Public Works is limited in what it can do to make repairs. When the ground is
Local sports columnist John Gilbert on the Vikings, NFC North – "Traditions can be hard to change in the NFL, but this season, the Vikings and Detroit Lions almost single-handedly have turned the NFC North upside down. The torn Achilles tendon and the season-long recovery have hardly stabilized the Vikings,
Boys Basketball Duluth Denfeld vs. Tartan, 4 p.m. in Hibbing Cromwell-Wright at Cloquet, 4:30 p.m. Mountain Iron-Buhl at Hibbing, 7:30 p.m. in Hibbing Girls Basketball Superior vs. Forest Lake, 12:30 p.m. at Duluth East Coon Rapids at Duluth East, 3:30 p.m.
By Larissa Donovan, Minnesota Reformer The following story is the first in a series produced in a collaboration between Energy News Network and KAXE/KBXE. World leaders in Dubai recently concluded the latest United Nations conference on climate change, where experts and advocates repeated urgent pleas for governments to phase
My lifetime buddy Fred Friedman on the woeful Vikings, moving forward – "They have to sign (Danielle) Hunter if they want to win. He is one of the best players in football. They should sign (Kirk) Cousins but they cannot win with or without him unless they improve the offensive
Dec. 31 – Glamour & Gold: A Great Gatsby New Year’s Eve, 6 p.m. Harbor Side Convention Center When Amber Brostrom was a little girl, she’d watch local live TV on New Year’s Eve. She tuned in to the fancy New Year’s Eve party sponsored by
Today Girls Basketball – vs. Bloomington Kennedy at Esko tournament, 2:45 p.m. Game Notes: The Hawks are 2-7, the Eagles 3-6. Hermantown players to watch are junior center Olivia Johnson, sophomore guard Bailey Hermanson, senior guard Bailey Zagelmeyer and junior guard Mikayla Sweeney. Wednesday Girls Basketball – TBD at Esko
Cloquet junior guard Jack Battaglia exploded for 38 points as the Lumberjacks blitzed winless Hibbing 113-83 at Cloquet Middle School Gym on Thursday night. Shaze Henagin contributed 24 points and Seth Rothamel 20 for the Jacks (3-4), who visit Cromwell-Wright Dec. 27. Battaglia, a deft outside shooter and rising college
Allete and North Plains Connector, a subsidiary of Grid United, this week signed development agreements for the North Plains Connector project, a new, approximately 400-mile high-voltage direct-current transmission line from central North Dakota to Colstrip, Montana. The agreements outline each company’s roles and responsibilities as development of the North
