CO Sean Williams (Ely 1) reports: angling activity steadily increased over the week as cold temperatures returned. Success was overall very low and very few fish were seen for early ice fishing.

PLEASE NOTE: Your free event news can be posted on the Ely Echo newspaper’s Community Calendar. Send your info to: [email protected]. The Ely Dark Sky Festival, a two-day celebration of Ely area dark ...

Two Ely leaders have been elected to the board of directors of an Iron Range lobbying organization. City council member Angela Campbell and school board member Tom Omerza both won seats on the Range ...

For our family this was a blessed Christmas with a new addition making a big splash. Driggs Allen Wognum was born on Dec. 9 at 5:23 a.m., weighing six pounds and measuring 20 inches in length. Proud ...

The Ely Timberwolves shook off a slow start and scored their second straight win Dec. 20 at Cherry. A 58-44 win over the Tigers gave the high school girls basketball team a 5-3 record for the winter, ...

Duluth East scored a solid win, but the Ely Timberwolves were right there with them during a Dec. 19 high school Nordic ...

Volunteers went into action last week exploring the 15-mile diameter Ely Christmas Count Circle. Count day was Winter Solstice (Saturday, Dec. 21). Members of the Ely Field Naturalists had worked to ...

The Superior National Forest, Chippewa National Forest, and Eastern Region Realty Resource staff of the U.S. Forest Service ...