Iron Range Today

11/20/2025

It's Give to the Max Day in Minnesota! With your donation to Iron Range Today of $100 or more, you can go home with some **cooler** (see what we did there?) swag than if you didn't donate.

Help support local news on the Iron Range, get some swag, be entered to this YETI cooler ($350 value).

www.ironrangetoday.com/donate

11/13/2025

Leah Elizabeth Joan, one of our co-founders, speaking at the Laurentian Chamber of Commerce breakfast connections. Leah was representing her role as president of the Virginia Community Foundation, but we’ll claim her, too!

And yes, Leah, this was the best picture 😁

11/11/2025

It's a big day for Iron Range Today. Our fundraising effort is now LIVE! And there's a few swag items open for a limited time during this Founding Member drive. We'd greatly appreciate your support of Iron Range Today, and local news. Thank you in, advance!

Contribute here: www.ironrangetoday.com/donate

10/21/2025

Some scenes from the first night of the 2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships in Virginia. 📸: Jerry Burnes

Men’s and women’s matches continue in Virginia and Eveleth throughout the week.

10/06/2025

NEW: Minnesota is poised to enforce a long-dormant regulation at Keetac. Local communities are on edge. How policies, economics, the environment and a place’s identity are confronting one another.

Minnesota is poised to enforce a long-dormant regulation at Keetac. Local communities are on edge. Here’s how policies, economics, the environment and a place’s identity are confronting one another…

08/15/2025

Congrats to one of our own! Co-founder Leah Ryan was recently named Board Chair of the Virginia Community Foundation!

📣 Leadership Update at Virginia Community Foundation!
We’re excited to announce Leah Ryan as our new Board Chair and Brenda Skorich as our new Vice Chair!

Leah, a journalist with Iron Range Today and board member since 2016, says:

“The Virginia Community Foundation is here to serve the greater Virginia community. I’m excited to build relationships and make a positive impact for our region.”

Brenda, a Minnesota North College faculty member and board member since 2023, shares:

“It’s an exciting time for the Virginia Foundation! I look forward to helping position VCF to grow and meet community needs for years to come.”

💙 Please join us in congratulating Leah and Brenda!

07/07/2025

BIG NEWS to kick off our Monday morning! Iron Range Today has officially become a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization! More to come on how you can contribute.

Exciting times over here!

06/19/2025

NEW: What does the U.S. Steel sale mean for Minnesota’s Iron Range? For starters, $800M in investments. But the detsils revealed Wednesday exclude explicit jobs/workforce protections.

Part of the Nippon Steel’s national security agreement with Trump administration includes $800M in local investments, few job protections.

06/11/2025

The restless mind knows no bounds. A night of tossing and turning became a night of logo design for the Range Makers series, which I'm also excited to say will launch as a standalone webpage from Iron Range Today.

We're incredibly excited about the potential of this project, and can't wait for it to go live. There's so much thoughtful work being put into the stories, the layouts and everything.

Again, if you're not familiar with Range Makers, read about it below. As we posted yesterday, we are looking for sponsors and connect with Jerry if you're interested!

Range Makers: https://ironrangetoday.com/2025/06/04/introducing-range-makers-an-ongoing-series/

06/10/2025

Iron Range Today is looking for sponsors for its Range Makers story series. If you're interested, get a hold of me!

What is Range Makers, you ask? Read about it below. Things are coming together amazingly so far!

https://ironrangetoday.com/2025/06/04/introducing-range-makers-an-ongoing-series/

05/12/2025

Introducing: Range Makers, an ongoing series. A call for story ideas. Meet the people forging the Iron Range's future, today.

MORE INFO: https://open.substack.com/pub/ironrangetoday/p/introducing-range-makers-an-ongoing?r=d7ezu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

05/05/2025

ICYMI: Mining layoffs and school budget cuts are again testing the Iron Range, with few indicators that Minorca Mine will be going through a short idle period.

As one long-time Ranger told me: "It does feel different" this time.

As mines idle and classrooms empty, the ripple effects have communities bracing for an uncertain future amid economic volatility.