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Officials from the county, Ely, Duluth, Forest Service and DNR came together to discuss preparations for an active spring wildfire season.
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Rep. Dave Lislegard and state Sen. Grant Hauschild also heard from EMS workers in Ely, Tower and Orr about challenges including staffing, funding and Medicare reimbursement.
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Two other men are in the St. Louis County Jail in Duluth while they await formal charges.
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Authorities say the sexual assault of a woman and the kidnapping and beating of a man took place over several days at a private Eveleth home.
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Janelle Greschner, director of business recruitment for the IRRR, said businesses are already interested in the planned industrial park in a city with very few manufacturing jobs.
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The Encampment Minerals proposals, one near Hoyt Lakes and the other near Cotton, call for diamond drilling exploratory borings and geological surveys.
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Judge James E. LaFave says the company’s solution for storing waste at the site by lining a tailings pond with bentonite clay is not a “practicable or workable reclamation technique.”
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Honorees include Ann Bussey of Side Lake; family nurse practitioner Shannon Shaw of Bemidji; Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin; and Ted Matthews of Hutchinson.
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The lake is near the shuttered Dunka taconite mining site. The site was closed almost 30 years ago and has long been a source of concern for water quality advocates.
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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development will award the business $220,000.