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MPR News' regional reporters on the importance of living where they report
MPR News guest host Catharine Richert talks with some of our regional reporters about what it means to report on the communities they live in and why that connection matters. 
Massive Duluth freeway interchange project nearly finished, replacing 'Can of Worms'
A $435 million, 5-year project that redesigned the interchange known to Duluth drivers as the “Can of Worms,” where three major highways come together, is expected to open later this month.
State regulators approve sale of northern MN public utility to private investors
Minnesota utility regulators unanimously approved the controversial sale of Duluth-based Minnesota Power to a pair of private investment firms, one of which is owned by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset holder.
Authorities searching for man who escaped from work farm near Duluth; alleged accomplice arrested
Authorities in northeastern Minnesota say they’re still looking for an inmate who walked away from a correctional facility near Duluth earlier this week — though they’re “moving from an active search to an ongoing investigation.”
Walking 161 miles in support of firefighter health
Minnesota firefighters Doug Foote and Kyle Bode completed a 161-mile walk from Duluth to St. Paul Sunday to raise funds for MnFIRE, a nonprofit working to keep firefighters healthy across the state.
Duluth man charged with starting the Camp House Fire — by leaving a campfire unattended
A 27-year-old Duluth man has been charged with leaving a campfire unattended in May that grew out of control into the Camp House Fire, which destroyed more than 150 structures near Brimson, Minn.
Duluth college student conducts research where she got life-changing treatment
When Arden Grim of Duluth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, her parents were told she may never walk or talk. This summer she worked as a researcher at the clinic where she went for therapy as a child that she described as “life-changing.”
Scientists wonder if Lake Superior can continue to avoid an invasion of mussels
Tiny and unmoving in their plastic prison cell, the thumbnail-sized shellfish didn’t look like much to fear. But knowing that invasive quagga and zebra mussels have destroyed entire ecosystems and killed billions of baby fish in the lower Great Lakes, it would be foolish to underestimate them.
University of Minnesota medical school’s Duluth campus shifts to 4-year program
For the first time since the school’s founding more than a half-century ago, incoming students at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth Campus this fall will complete all four years of their training in Duluth.