Last month Sherman Associates started work on the renovation of the landmark NorShor Theatre

The apparent low bid of $1.939 million came in well below MnDOT’s estimate.

Duluth’s “boy mayor” is leaving the job he has seemed born to, with a successor to be elected Tuesday.

The Senate Capital Investment Committee is in the middle of the second leg of its four-part tour of state project ideas.

The provision was the last remaining question mark in the financing plan for a $10 million effort to build out a 60,000-square-foot aircraft painting facility in Duluth.

A long list of projects adds up to big money in Duluth.

MnDOT seeks bids for engineering work to review ‘every foot’ of disputed rail route linking Twin Cities and Duluth.

City of Duluth, city of Rochester

State Rep. Karen Clark, who was the lead sponsor of legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, will receive the lifetime achievement award as part of the fourth annual Leaders in Public Policy awards, sponsored by Capitol Report and Politics in Minnesota. Clark and the other honorees will be recognized at a ceremony at the Saint Paul Hotel on July 11.

DFL House Speaker Paul Thissen this week created a temporary committee on controlled substances and synthetic drugs that will hold hearings over the interim on drug abuse issues. Rep. Erik Simonson, DFL-Duluth, will chair the committee, which has to present a report to the speaker by the time session starts in February next year.