Between them, some 50 volunteers wearing bright yellow Boldt safety vests filled 36 large garbage bags with trash Saturday, marking another successful Cloquet Riverfront cleanup. Sponsored by Boldt ...

Photographer Will Stenberg captured the always striking state bird, the loon, in the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge near McGregor last week.

Rain, sun, snow, and hail ... all in one day. The spring of 2025 weather has been as unpredictable as the economy. It has been a slow snow melt, with ice just recently floating away, opening up area ...

Registration for this season’s Cloquet Community Garden is open. Located on the east side of the Zion Lutheran Church grounds at 1000 Washington Ave., the garden space includes about 25 plots of ...

Vivian Murdock, 81, died April 21. She grew up in rural Wright and graduated from Cromwell High School in 1962. She is survived by her husband, Cloyce Murdock, and children, Randy, Glenn, Sheena and ...

The Roundabout Art Tour has never been about speed, or one-stop shopping. Rather, the one-day event is about exposure to a wide range of local art and artists, at venues from Cloquet to Esko to ...

Cloquet school board members approved the biggest budget cuts in recent history Monday, but also took two positions off the chopping block, reducing potential cuts from over $2 million to roughly ...

According to a news report, U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber met recently with a hundred Carlton County Republicans at the Cloquet Public Library while, outside, more than 300 peaceful constituents marched ...

One of the best-kept sports secrets in the Cloquet area may not be a secret for much longer. The Minnesota Academy of Tumbling, which got its start less than three years ago, has swelled to more than ...

Thanks to Charlie Butcher for the thoughtful letter to the Pine Knot News on March 28. How shameful can we be to remove Ira Hayes’ name from the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima? Where are our American ...

Not surprisingly for a science fair standout, Cloquet High School senior Johanna Bernu thoroughly investigated her college options. In the end, she applied to five schools with programs that would ...

A man at the center of a three-hour standoff with law enforcement Sunday afternoon is facing charges for allegedly threatening law enforcement, including with gunfire. William Joseph Wise Jr., 45, was ...