Bob Kelleher Feature Archive
Three broadband projects will connect through Duluth -- increasing Duluth's total fiber communications capacity and creating new redundancies that can help prevent future phone and internet outages.
(09/02/2010)
About a third of the nurses in Duluth, who were on the verge of holding a one-day strike, have just reached a tentative contract agreement. They work at St. Luke's hospital.
(09/01/2010)
More than 400 registered nurses have struck a new contract deal with Duluth's St. Luke's hospital.
(09/01/2010)
A final round of contract negotiations takes place Tuesday for more than 400 registered nurses who work at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth. The talks will focus on a proposed code of conduct opposed by the nurses' union.
(08/31/2010)
The union representing more than 900 nurses at Duluth's SMDC Health System will be making plans for a one-day strike after they made little progress at a bargaining session Wednesday.
(08/25/2010)
Contract talks resume Wednesday between one of two Duluth hospital organizations and its nurses.
(08/25/2010)
As a steady stream of visitors arrived to see what was left of the Tettegouche arch, park officials were trying to figure out just when it collapsed.
(08/23/2010)
Five states Monday will ask a federal court to close Chicago area shipping gates to block the path of Asian carp to the Great Lakes.
(08/23/2010)
No new contract talks are scheduled a day after 1,300 Duluth nurses rejected contract offers and authorized their union to call a one-day strike against the city's two hospitals. A strike date has yet to be set.
(08/19/2010)
More than 1,300 Duluth nurses are voting today on final contract offers from the city's two hospital groups.
(08/18/2010)
Union leaders are urging members to reject the contracts, and authorize a one-day strike. Negotiations have been stuck on the issue of staffing, with nurses wanting specific contract language to give them the authority to add staff on busy days.
(08/18/2010)
The union nurses at two Duluth hospital systems are scheduled to hold a strike vote later this week in a contract dispute that prompted a one-day nurses strike in the Twin cities last June.
(08/16/2010)
Union nurses at two Duluth hospital systems are scheduled to hold a strike vote later this week in a contract dispute that prompted a one-day nurse's strike in the Twin Cities last June.
(08/16/2010)
The Scott County Attorney will consider whether charges are warranted after a Duluth police officer shot and killed a rampaging 17-year-old.
(08/13/2010)
This year, the normally uncomfortably cool surface waters of Lake Superior aren't so cold, but a researcher stops short of directly blaming global warming.
(08/12/2010)