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March 8, 2021 If you were paying attention to 2020’s presidential race, you’re familiar with Senator Bernie Sanders’ fiery passion about America’s wealth gap. It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like “communist” and “marxist.” Whatever you think of Sanders’ proposed solutions to the wealth gap, his stats weren’t wrong. There is a huge gulf be...

Saskatchewan's Water Security Agency has updated its spring runoff report for March. Spokesman Patrick Boyle s...

  SASKATOON -- The public looks to Environment Canada to predict the weather in the sky but their work is also used to predict floods and climate change. Hydrometric technologist Cody Garbutt comes to Prince Albert every two months to collect data about the North Saskatchewan River. It’s one of 170 hydrological monitoring stations in Saskatchewan that are run by Environment and Climate Change Canada. The data collected is for the Water Survey of Canada (WSC), an ongoing survey that’s ...

A suburban man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Wednesday for attempting to aid the Islamic State terrorist group by providing cellphones to an undercover FBI agent to be used as detonators.

Whats fair is fair? Unpacking the latest St. Louis County Board squabble After Duluth commissioners had to be convinced about a Chisholm clinic, Mike Jugovich wondered if rural commissioners full support for a planned Duluth health care facility counted for anything. 7:00 pm, Feb. 28, 2021 × Mike Jugovich was concerned, texting last week to say division on the St. Louis County Board "will grow without both sides of the story.” The County Board chair was making a point...

VIRGINIA — Keith Nelson was “more than a little ticked off.” A St. Louis County commissioner, Nelson, of Fayal Township, spent Tuesday criticizing three of his counterparts from Duluth for sending a letter to Minnesota’s U.S. senators and the federal nominees for the Secretary of Agriculture and Interior stating their opposition of copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park. The problem, he said during the latest county me...

Why grandparents can’t find vaccines: Scarcity of niche biotech ingredients Christopher Rowland © James MacDonald/Bloomberg A scientist works in the Acuitas Therapeutics lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., on Jan. 21, 2021. Acuitas Therapeutics provided its lipid nanoparticle delivery system in the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. (Photography by James MacDonald/Bloomberg News) Acuitas Therapeutics, a tiny biotechnology fir...

By Craig Wallebeck Feb 8, 2021 7:43 AM The Water Security Agency of Saskatchewan is predicting a fairly dry 2021 for the province. Early indictors point to most of the southern and central regions of the province seeing below to well below normal spring runoff, including Yorkton and area. WSA spokesperson Patrick Boyle notes that 2021 could be a fairly dry year.

St. Louis County commissioner says he continued to work when he had COVID-19 Commissioner Keith Nelson noted the Duluth commissioners were avoiding live meetings despite masks being worn. Nelson later said he had COVID-19 and worked through it. 5:19 pm, Feb. 2, 2021 × While Duluth commissioners defended their stance to attend St. Louis County Board meetings virtually, Commissioner Keith Nelson chided them for it, and said he worked through a bout with COVID-19. Commissi...

Mining resolution figures to divide St. Louis County Board this week A resolution opposed to state or federal bans on copper-nickel mining has the support of the Iron Range and rural commissioners, but Duluths Patrick Boyle bristled, describing it as unnecessary and divisive. 1:39 pm, Jan. 25, 2021 × A resolution in favor of copper-nickel mining is sure to divide the St. Louis County Board at its meeting Tuesday in Virginia. The resolution comes on the heels of new pro...