County engineers are hosting a kickoff meeting to discuss an Intersection Control Evaluation Study and to gather feedback from the public for the intersection of 24th Avenue West and Piedmont Avenue in Duluth. The meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m., at Denfeld High School in the West Commons area. 

On September 16th, 2023, at 9:03pm, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a boat accident on an island, on Lake Vermilion.  Members of the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office Rescue Squad and the Tower Fire Department responded to Rainbow Island, located in Daisy Bay and discovered a pontoon boat that had struck the island. 1st Responders located a female passenger that had been thrown from the boat, onto the island and provided medical assistance until she could be transported to shore.  The passenger was subsequently transported to the Virgina Hospital, via Tower Ambulance, due to her non-life-threatening injuries.  The driver of the boat was also transported to shore by 1st Responders and then transported, by ambulance, to the Virginia Hospital as a precaution.

Eric James Jarvis, 47, of Hibbing, Minnesota was sentenced to 103 months for the First-Degree Manslaughter in connection with the June 28, 2022, death of his girlfriend, Kari Jo Petrich.

St. Louis County Public Works is in the planning stages for a project to reconstruct a portion of 40th Avenue West in Duluth, from the railroad tracks near 9th Avenue down the hill to Grand Avenue. The project is expected to occur in 2026. County engineers are hosting a kick off meeting to discuss potential improvements and to gather feedback from the public. The meeting will be Monday, Sept. 18, at 6 p.m., at Denfeld High School in the West Commons area. 

On September 9, 2023 law enforcement was dispatched to the report of a shoot out vehicle windows near the Lakeland mobile home park located in Biwabik Township. A short time later a second 911 call was received from a male reporting that a vehicle had rammed into his parked vehicle and shot at the vehicle with a shotgun. No injuries resulted. The shooter  was subsequently taken into custody and charged with several felony level offenses. The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office believes that this is an isolated incident and it remains under investigation.