Grand Portage News

The new interpretive center at Grand Portage, which opened in 2007, provides an excellent history of the fur trade in the area.

No major glitches were reported at northern Minnesota border crossings during the first day of new identification rules for entry into the U.S. Traffic was moving quickly and the line was short at the Canadian border crossing in International Falls on Monday.

Traffic was moving quickly and the line was short at the Canadian border crossing here Monday, the first day passports were required for entry into the U.S. It appeared nearly everyone trying to enter the U.S. via Minnesotaa s four major crossings was aware of the new regulation, said Marty Eide, area port director.

No major glitches were reported at northern Minnesota border crossings during the first day of new identification rules for entry into the U.S. Traffic was moving quickly and the line was short at the Canadian border crossing in International Falls on Monday.

U.S. Consular officer Adam Vogelzang shows his passport Thursday during a visit to Thunder Bay.

A canoeist making a 1,000-mile journey was rescued by the Duluth Fire Department on Tuesday morning when his heavily laden canoe took on water in the Duluth ship canal.

By Rachel Kytonen rachel.kytonen@ecm-inc.com The Emmy-award winning host of Morning Edition on Minnesota Public Radio, and co-host of Almanac, a weekly public affairs program produced by Twin Cities Public Television, will make a guest appearance in Cambridge.

A canoeist from Hovland got a bigger welcome to Duluth this morning than he expected.

IN NATIONAL MONUMENTS, POET HEID E. ERDRICH documents the strange case of Nefertiti, an ancient Egyptian queen acclaimed as the "most beautiful woman in the world" after Ludwig Borchardt's 1912 excavation of her ravishing likeness, in the form of a sculpted head, from the sands of Tel-el-Amarna. I know what historians say: Nefertiti vanished until ...

National Geographic Adventure has posted a great list of their choices for the Top 10 American Adventures , offering up plenty of great ideas for adventurous vacations that are close to home.

For the first time in a half-century of studying wolves on Isle Royale, scientists have found conclusive evidence that the animals are inbreeding to the point of physical deformities.

In some areas, the trees were weighted down by an inch or more of ice. As of Tuesday afternoon, power had been restored to most Knife River, Two Harbors and Silver Bay residents, but it was still dark in Beaver Bay and rural areas.

Ricey Wild on stashing tuna and toilet paper as survival kit. Then I found a curious plastic toilet paper bag.

By: Daniel Lancaster. Publisher: Holy Cow! Press, 173 pages, $14.95. Review: Lancaster's rich biography of the Ojibwe mail carrier also includes Indian legends and North Shore history.

Visit Duluth sends you this information on behalf of the North Shore Scenic Drive Council.

Art supplies. Bohemia Arts, 22 N. First Ave. W., is offering deep discounts - 25 percent and higher - on most of its art supplies and gifts .

Canadian researchers announce the discovery of MEDNIK Syndrome, a debilitating genetic syndrome.

Canadian researchers announce the discovery of MEDNIK, a debilitating genetic syndrome, in a study published December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.

Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Middle Dec. 3--All hell was breaking loose across Minnesota today, at least on paper at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.