Jana Hollingsworth
Duluth Reporter
Duluth/SuperiorJana Hollingsworth spent more than a dozen years covering education and Native American issues for the Duluth News Tribune. She began her journalism career with the University of St. Thomas campus newspaper, the Aquin, and has also worked for the Superior Daily Telegram. She grew up in Proctor, Minn., and lives in Duluth with her husband and daughter.
Latest from Jana Hollingsworth
‘Bold’ and underweight black bear family finds new home at wildlife center
A sow on the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior reservation was deemed a chronic nuisance for her love of human food.
July 18, 2025
Northeastern Minnesota rail town getting its first major development since the 1940s
The scale of the project in the city of 3,000 people amounts to a new neighborhood.
July 16, 2025
Duluth’s federal prison to remain open, months after Biden administration put it on closure list
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in December the minimum-security prison was among seven across the country to be deactivated.
July 15, 2025
Duluth EPA lab employees put on leave after signing dissent letter
Several employees signed letter, which decried EPA’s direction under Trump.
July 11, 2025
Duluth City Council president barred from coffee shop after confronting employee
Terese Tomanek allegedly told an employee as he was working that she was “disturbed” by something he’d posted online related to a controversial tenants rights ballot measure.
July 10, 2025
Long-sought $500M Duluth project in limbo with New York developer’s finances questioned
Lazar Ostreicher pitched a big residential complex with city financial aid on the site of old Central High School, but Duluth says he breached his contract. He’s fighting the city while separately fighting a lender from foreclosing on a Duluth apartment building he owns.
July 3, 2025
Duluth voters could see competing rental rights laws on November ballot
Most Duluth city councilors oppose the tenants rights proposal of a citizen group, which garnered 6,000 petition signatures.
July 2, 2025
Duluth woman killed in apparent domestic violence case
The suspect’s criminal record shows dismissed domestic-abuse charges in Wisconsin.
June 30, 2025
Duluth City Council president barred from coffee shop after confronting employee
Terese Tomanek allegedly told an employee as he was working that she was “disturbed” by something he’d posted online related to a controversial tenants rights ballot measure.
July 10, 2025
Long-sought $500M Duluth project in limbo with New York developer’s finances questioned
Lazar Ostreicher pitched a big residential complex with city financial aid on the site of old Central High School, but Duluth says he breached his contract. He’s fighting the city while separately fighting a lender from foreclosing on a Duluth apartment building he owns.
July 3, 2025
Duluth voters could see competing rental rights laws on November ballot
Most Duluth city councilors oppose the tenants rights proposal of a citizen group, which garnered 6,000 petition signatures.
July 2, 2025
Duluth woman killed in apparent domestic violence case
The suspect’s criminal record shows dismissed domestic-abuse charges in Wisconsin.
June 30, 2025