Thomson News

C ook County, at the tip of Minnesota's Arrowhead region, wants to build a fiber-optic network along its major highway routes -- Hwy.

Like falling dominoes, worry about the economy affects first one party and then another, on down to those who are more dependent than most.

Hobos and soup lines. Rosie the riveter. Bridge guards and a letter from J. Edgar Hoover.

An electric heater used to heat water lines beneath a trailer house may have ignited the fire that destroyed the Thomson Township building Tuesday evening.

Thomson Township recently received a shot in the arm in the form of a $5,000 grant from AgStar Financial Services to help fund a recently completed feasibility study along the Interstate-35 corridor.

Steve McLister, publisher of the Duluth News Tribune, will be leaving his post to become vice president of newspapers for Forum Communications Co., based in Fargo, N.D., in February.

A fund drive for 17 struggling northern Minnesota food shelves has raised $40,000, and a check for the amount will be presented today in Virginia, Minn.

The Minnesota chapter of the Construction Management Association of America will hold a panel discussion on best value contracting this month.