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Sappi Paper re-tools for a new product

A huge pulp mill in Cloquet today marked a $170 million conversion to producing a new kind of product.  The investment in Sappi Fine Papers is expected to keep the mill viable for years to come. Sappi officials announced in 2011 they would convert the mill from making paper into manufacturing a purer form of Read more →
by Dan Kraker

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Dayton undecided about controversial copper-nickel mine

Gov. Mark Dayton remains “undecided” about a controversial proposed copper-nickel mine in northeast Minnesota. While iron mining has provided good paying jobs in northeast Minnesota for decades, copper-nickel mining “leaves behind toxic wastes that must be contained,” Dayton wrote in a column published Wednesday in the Mesabi Daily News. The draft environmental analysis of the Read more →
by Dan Kraker

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Border Patrol drones fly the skies for Minn. agencies

Border Patrol drones fly the skies for Minn. agencies

Minnesota agencies have used unmanned aircraft from the Border Patrol  for a variety of missions in the past three years. Information from the Department of Homeland Security, gathered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation lists 11 UAS missions flown at the request of Minnesota agencies in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Border Patrol routinely patrols the northern border Read more →
by Dan Gunderson

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Not a soul in sight for 15 days, Ely bushwhacker emerges from the wild

Not a soul in sight for 15 days, Ely bushwhacker emerges from the wild

MPR News live: Join a chat with Jason Monday at 11a. Outfitter and guide Jason Zabokrtsky has emerged from two weeks in the wilderness after bushwhacking his way from the depths of Quetico Provincial Park, through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and into Ely, Minn. via the Old Cloquet Railroad line about 8 miles Read more →
by Michael Olson

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Marking the graves of those long forgotten

Marking the graves of those long forgotten

Every year the Remembering With Dignity organizers and volunteers have observances and place markers at cemeteries around Minnesota where state hospital residents were buried and identified with only a numbered brick.
by Dan Olson

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Day 11: Wilderness bushwhacker is wet, cold and in Canada

Day 11: Wilderness bushwhacker is wet, cold and in Canada

If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: “It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn. And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full Read more →
by Michael Olson

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Livestock killings down, but too soon to link to wolf hunt

The number of livestock and pets attacked by livestock is way down following Minnesota’s first regulated wolf hunt. But officials caution it’s too soon to tell how much of a role the hunt played in the decline.
by Dan Kraker

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