Gas prices drop as refineries restart
Minnesota’s brush with record-high gas prices — among the highest in the U.S. — has ended, with the statewide average price this week dropping below the national average for the first time in weeks.Duluth News Tribune, 06/20/2013
Minnesota gas prices drop below national average, including at one Duluth station
Gas prices have dropped below the national average even in Duluth — at least at one station — M&H at 1230 W. Michigan St., where gas was selling for $3.57 this morning.Duluth News Tribune, 06/19/2013
Court puts taconite plant haze rule on hold
8th District U.S. Court of Appeals order may force the EPA and mining companies back to the negotiating table.Duluth News Tribune, 06/19/2013
Copper mining economics questioned by Montana economist
University of Minnesota Duluth geologists call it the largest untapped copper-nickel deposit in the world, with millions of tons of valuable metals worth billions of dollars sitting in the Duluth complex of rock under Minnesota’s Arrowhead.Duluth News Tribune, 06/19/2013
Economist questions cost-benefit equation of copper mining
Thomas Power, former chairman of the University of Montana’s Department of Economics, said mining’s economic costs are often overlooked in the luster of a promised boom time.Duluth News Tribune, 06/18/2013
Appellate Court puts taconite plant haze rule on hold
The Eighth District U.S. Court of Appeals stay may force the EPA and mining companies back to the negotiating table.Duluth News Tribune, 06/18/2013
IRRRB reworks loan to Excelsior Energy
Minnesota lawmakers who make up the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board on Monday gave their blessing to a plan to restructure a $9.15 million loan with troubled Excelsior Energy.Duluth News Tribune, 06/18/2013
Iron Range board reworks loan to Excelsior Energy
With $9.1 million at stake, lawmakers support a plan that buys time.Duluth News Tribune, 06/17/2013
Duluth streams being fixed with future floods in mind
Last June’s storm scarred more than 40 named streams in Duluth, 16 of which are designated trout streams. As they're slowly rebuilt, care is being taken that they can withstand another flood.Duluth News Tribune, 06/17/2013
Plane that crashed on Madeline Island was trying to land
The two men who died in Saturday evening's crash near the Madeline Island airport were not residents of the island and were from outside the Northland, Ashland County Sheriff Mick Brennan said Sunday.Duluth News Tribune, 06/16/2013
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