Christa Lawler
Duluth Reporter
Duluth/SuperiorBefore joining the Star Tribune in 2022, Christa Lawler was a sports reporter-turned-arts and entertainment reporter at the Duluth News Tribune. She started at the Rochester Post-Bulletin, her hometown newspaper, after graduating from the University of St. Thomas. She has lived in Duluth since 2000 and likes trail running, yoga, paddle boarding and reading.
Latest from Christa Lawler
Duluth tourist hot spot will get upgrades during monthslong construction project
The Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center at Canal Park is getting a $3.5 million shoreline upgrade.
May 1, 2025
No charges in Hibbing native Adam Johnson’s death during 2023 U.K. hockey game
Johnson, who played two years at UMD, was beloved among his former teammates and townmates.
April 29, 2025
Duluth businesses lauded for promoting less light, more night sky
The Lake Superior Zoo was among several local organizations tapped by Starry Skies North. The bats love it.
April 28, 2025
Fiery, funny punks to nostalgic synth art-pop: Duluth’s Homegrown is eight days of local music on dozens of stages
The festival started as a birthday party for Scott “Starfire” Lunt, but more than two decades later is much, much more.
April 24, 2025
Man charged in July fatal stabbing, arson in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood
Tyler Walter Edwards is accused of killing Maxton Keith Gudowski in July 2024, then lighting him and his apartment on fire.
April 24, 2025
In the midst of global trade war, first saltie of the season arrives at Port of Duluth-Superior
Federal Nagara, loaded with sugar beet refining equipment, cruised through the canal Monday morning.
April 22, 2025
Professor fired for not complying with COVID-19 vaccine mandate sues Walz, school leaders
The former Lake Superior College instructor said in a court filing that he refused to be coerced into something that “violates fundamental rights.”
April 15, 2025
Cheng-Khee Chee, globally renowned watercolorist from Duluth, dies at 92
Chee won hundreds of awards in his lifetime and is best known for illustrating “Old Turtle” by Douglas Wood.
April 11, 2025
How a small Minnesota town ‘seceded’ from the U.S.
“We will be similar to Monaco,” Kinney’s leaders said in the 1970s.
April 11, 2025
Minnesota high school dean extradited to Georgia, charged with ‘obscene internet contact with a child’
Christopher John Chad of Eveleth was arrested in mid-March and is now in Fulton County jail in Atlanta.
April 8, 2025
Duluth man gets prison for sexual conduct against young church-goers
Clint Massie pleaded guilty to acts against girls in his church, but violated the terms of his pre-sentencing release when he went to a funeral where children were present.
March 27, 2025
IRRRB picks new chair to replace Justin Eichorn, out after he resigned from Senate after arrest
Sen. Robert Farnsworth of Hibbing is new chair of the Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board.
March 26, 2025
