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Christa Lawler covers Duluth and surrounding areas for the Star Tribune. Sign up to receive the new North Report newsletter.

Before joining the Star Tribune in 2022, Christa Lawler was a sports reporter-turned-arts and entertainment reporter at the Duluth News Tribune. She started at the Rochester Post-Bulletin, her hometown newspaper, after graduating from the University of St. Thomas. She has lived in Duluth since 2000 and likes trail running, yoga, paddle boarding and reading.


Babbitt man pleads guilty to killing married couple in their 70s

He drove to Duluth and asked police to jail him for killing the couple, his roommates of a month.


Man convicted in Chisholm woman's 1986 cold case murder will get new trial

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that St. Louis County District Court erred in not allowing an alternate perpetrator defense for Michael Carbo Jr. in the murder of Nancy Daugherty.


A reporter and her child navigate a Minnesota rite of passage: a ropes course

A three-day trip to one of the state's environmental learning centers offered outdoor experiences, bird encounters and decisive moments 30 feet off the ground.


Duluth 'plunger' vandal charged with defacing multiple sites in months-long spree

Mason Kenneth Manseau was arrested in early April, released, and arrested again in May.


Ship found at the bottom of Lake Superior more than 100 years after it went missing

A team from the Great Lakes Shipwrecks Historical Society found the Adella Shores 650 feet deep in Lake Superior near Whitefish Point.


Parts of Twin Ports Interchange project could open in fall; completion is in sight

A representative from the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council said the investigation is ongoing regarding historical artifacts found at construction sites.


Duluth Homegrown Music Festival kicks off without mayor for first time in two decades

New Duluth Mayor Roger Reinert declined to participate, organizers said.


In Grand Rapids, Itasca Pride plans first event, but faces pushback

"Straight pride" is planning its parade around the same location.


Florian Chmielewski, former senator and Funtime Band accordion player, dies at 97

Chmielewski played at his own 97th birthday party at the VFW two months ago.


High winds flipped a FedEx truck traveling on Bong Bridge in Duluth

The driver said he had minor injuries.