ELY – School board members here Monday night approved the administration team’s plan to re-open school buildings for in-person learning to begin the 2020-21 school year amid the … more

REGIONAL- Results have been tallied from the two-day COVID-19 testing event in Chisholm in late July, and out of a total of 1,679 people tested, just four of those people tested positive. … more

REGIONAL— Former Tower Clerk-Treasurer Linda Keith is scheduled to face a St. Louis County jury in December over felony charges stemming from her acknowledged destruction of a city laptop … more

ELY – ISD 696 officials made their case to district tax payers for a $10 million bonding referendum for a school facility renovation project and voters answered on Tuesday with their … more

REGIONAL- When the Minnesota Department of Corrections announced last week that it intends to close the Togo Correctional Facility to help solve its $14 million budget crisis, it created a greater … more

TOWER- Heads are turning in Tower– especially by anyone walking or driving on North Second Street.The double corner lot at Pine and North Second is a kaleidoscope of colors: purples, oranges, … more

REGIONAL – When considering the candidates for Bois Forte Band of Chippewa tribal chairperson, voters will likely discover that incumbent Cathy Chavers and challenger Miranda Villebrun Lilya … more

REGIONAL- A regional pilot test to develop location-specific internet speed maps is being deployed statewide as only the second such state-level initiative in the country to gather specific site data … more

TOWER— Grant funding from the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation should help participating small businesses here begin to recover from the impacts stemming from efforts to … more

TOWER— The city council here, at a special meeting held Wednesday (after the Timberjay’s weekly presstime) was expected to appoint Kevin Norby to fill the seat left vacant by the recent … more