St. Louis County is seeking volunteers to serve on the Local Mental Health Advisory Council serving Duluth and surrounding communities in the southern part of the county. Ideal candidates include anyone who has lived experience of their own or through a loved one, anyone with professional training related to mental health, and those who are passionate about improving services in our community. The application deadline is October 20. The Local Mental Health Advisory Council meets on the third Thursday of each month from 5-6:30 p.m. Advisory council members are asked to commit to serve on the council for two years. A stipend is available for people with lived experience who serve on the advisory council. More information about the work of the Local Advisory Council and a link to apply can be found online at stlouiscountymn.gov/lac.

St. Louis County is looking for ideas on how to prevent the introduction or limit the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) in lakes, rivers and other bodies of water. Projects should focus on the protection or maintenance of aquatic resources, and social or economic impacts of AIS. Applications, instructions and other details can be found online at stlouiscountymn.gov/ais. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 17. Grant awards will be announced in January 2024, and projects are expected to begin in the spring of 2024.

County engineers are hosting a kickoff meeting to discuss an Intersection Control Evaluation Study and to gather feedback from the public for the intersection of 24th Avenue West and Piedmont Avenue in Duluth. The meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m., at Denfeld High School in the West Commons area. 

On September 16th, 2023, at 9:03pm, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a boat accident on an island, on Lake Vermilion.  Members of the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office Rescue Squad and the Tower Fire Department responded to Rainbow Island, located in Daisy Bay and discovered a pontoon boat that had struck the island. 1st Responders located a female passenger that had been thrown from the boat, onto the island and provided medical assistance until she could be transported to shore.  The passenger was subsequently transported to the Virgina Hospital, via Tower Ambulance, due to her non-life-threatening injuries.  The driver of the boat was also transported to shore by 1st Responders and then transported, by ambulance, to the Virginia Hospital as a precaution.

Eric James Jarvis, 47, of Hibbing, Minnesota was sentenced to 103 months for the First-Degree Manslaughter in connection with the June 28, 2022, death of his girlfriend, Kari Jo Petrich.