Jana Peterson [email protected] Managing director Jeff Boulden came to the Cloquet Sappi mill in May after only a year ...

With a roster loaded with young players, nearly devoid of seniors and juniors, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls hockey team has ...

Opposition emerged in Wrenshall this week to a proposed school consolidation with neighboring Carlton, with the circulation ...

The business climate in Cloquet has been lively in 2025, with lots of building work going on and new places joining a stable ...

Esko schools superintendent Aaron Fischer has a mantra when it comes to any considerations concerning fixes to the busy ...

The northern lights were active at least two nights last week across the state and much of the country, with spectacular ...

The developer of a proposed data center in Hermantown, on land near the border of Carlton and St. Louis counties, is hitting ...

When the season started, the Minnesota Wilderness hockey team came out of the gates like a bolt of lightning. They raced to the top of the NAHL Midwest Division and looked to be an unstoppable force.

Nicole Dawn Fischer had been delaying court appearances in her felony drug case stemming from a Carlton County traffic stop in May. This fall her attorney asked for more time to go through the case ...

When we started the Pine Knot News seven years ago, people in the newspaper industry noticed. Admittedly, it was mostly shock — Who was crazy enough to start a brand-new paper? — mixed in with a ...

Several years ago, the social services director of a well-known Christian organization I was working for gave me this advice: “If you are going to make a mistake, make it on the side of compassion.” ...

Property owners across Minnesota could be asked to come up with nearly $1 billion more for city, county and other local government operations, according to data released last week by the Department of ...