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Broadway show postponed until Oct. 19 Featured Post

Broadway show postponed until Oct. 19

The touring production of “Hadestown,” originally scheduled for tonight at DECC Symphony Hall, has been postponed because of travel conditions and restrictions tied to the Midwest winter storm.

The Tony Award-winning musical, created by Anaïs Mitchell, intertwines the mythic love stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone, in a journey to the underworld and back.

The performance has been rescheduled for Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. Current tickets will be honored for the new date.

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Bulldogs stun No. 2 North Dakota, advance to NCHC title game

Minnesota Duluth is 5-2 all-time in Frozen Faceoff semifinal games and will play for its fourth NCHC tournament title. Denver and the Bulldogs enter the championship game tied for the most titles in conference tournament history with three.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Minnesota Duluth shuffled its lines, struck early and never let No. 2 North Dakota recover Saturday night.

The Bulldogs scored twice in the opening period, got 33 saves from Adam Gajan and rolled past the top-seeded Fighting Hawks 5-1 in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Frozen Faceoff semifinal at Ralph Engelstad Arena.

The victory sends Minnesota Duluth to Denver on Saturday for the NCHC championship game against second-seeded Denver.

“We’ve done it before, we tried it,” Bulldogs coach Scott Sandelin said of breaking up his top line. “It’s great when it works, it’s

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Howie: Mayor Wayne Boucher helped Hermantown grow without losing its soul Featured Post

In a country where public confidence has eroded in too many places, Hermantown has preserved something that is becoming more valuable all the time: the sense that a city can grow, modernize and prosper without surrendering basic standards of safety and livability.

Howie: Mayor Wayne Boucher helped Hermantown grow without losing its soul
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Howie is a longtime Minnesota journalist, independent columnist and author covering sports, power and civic life. His daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen . Bar of Duluth.

Hermantown did not become one of northeastern Minnesota’s most admired communities through accident, luck or political showmanship. It got there the hard way — through steady planning, public order, careful growth and leadership that understood a city’s first obligation is not to impress people, but to serve them well.

Mayor Boucher. City of Hermantown

That is what makes Wayne Boucher’s years as mayor worth recognizing. His style has never

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Howie: Couch brings rare talent, unfinished NFL story to Monsters

Howie is a longtime Minnesota journalist, independent columnist and author covering sports, power and civic life. His daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen . Bar of Duluth.

Minnesota Monsters star wide receiver Jamal Couch has spent much of his professional football life carrying a label that sounds flattering on the surface and frustrating once you live inside it long enough.

In NFL scouting language, Couch is what evaluators sometimes call a unicorn — a player with rare physical traits who does not fit cleanly into one of the league’s neat positional boxes. That word can sound like praise,

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Howie: A spring ritual returns to Minnesota Featured Post

In the wild, peregrine falcons typically nest on high, open ledges such as rocky cliffs. In modern cities, tall structures — including skyscrapers — serve as stand-ins for those natural cliff faces, and the St. Paul nest box has become a reliable urban nesting site.

Howie: A spring ritual returns to Minnesota
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Howie is Minnesota’s Columnist, writing about power, money, sports and civic life across the state. His daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen . Bar of Duluth.

Every spring in Minnesota, long before the last snowbank disappears and well before the fishing opener arrives, a quieter seasonal ritual begins high above the streets of downtown St. Paul.

A pair of peregrine falcons returns to a gravel nest box on a skyscraper ledge, settles in for the nesting season, and — thanks to a small camera mounted nearby — thousands of people across the state get a front-row seat.

The Minnesota

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Howie: FOX21 KQDS knocks it out of the park with website redesign Featured Post

For readers in the Duluth market, the takeaway is pretty simple. The FOX21 site now looks and feels like a modern news operation. Clean design, smoother navigation, stronger technical backbone — all of it working together to deliver stories more efficiently.

Howie is Minnesota’s Columnist, writing about power, money, sports and civic life across the state. His daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen . Bar of Duluth.

Now and then in the local media business, something simple happens that quietly says a lot about where things are headed. This week, it’s FOX21 KQDS' redesigned website.

The new Fox21online.com isn’t just a fresh coat of paint. It’s a reminder that in a digital-first era — where readers decide every day which local outlets deserve their attention — presentation, usability and speed matter as much as the journalism

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