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
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
Former Duluth Mayor Emily Larson’s new role is in a new city
Larson, who served two terms as mayor, is returning to her social work roots.
June 27, 2025
Open wide and say grrrr: An 800-pound bear in Duluth gets largest dental crown ever created
It’s not the toughest job the veterinarian-dentist has worked, she said: That title goes to Chihuahuas.
June 25, 2025
Duluth Tenants Union files petition for right-to-repair ballot measure, despite city opposition
The group says it has nearly 6,000 signatures, which the city must now verify.
June 13, 2025
Perch Lake restored, rejoined to St. Louis River
Perch Lake was once a bay of the river, before development separated the two.
June 12, 2025
Former Duluth Mayor Emily Larson’s new role is in a new city
Larson, who served two terms as mayor, is returning to her social work roots.
June 27, 2025
Open wide and say grrrr: An 800-pound bear in Duluth gets largest dental crown ever created
It’s not the toughest job the veterinarian-dentist has worked, she said: That title goes to Chihuahuas.
June 25, 2025
Duluth Tenants Union files petition for right-to-repair ballot measure, despite city opposition
The group says it has nearly 6,000 signatures, which the city must now verify.
June 13, 2025
Perch Lake restored, rejoined to St. Louis River
Perch Lake was once a bay of the river, before development separated the two.
June 12, 2025