The story goes that when Hibbing and Chisholm were vying to land the Iron Range Interpretive Center, what became Ironworld, the Hibbing City Council didn't want to put up any money for the project. So ...

CHISHOLM, Minn. (AP) - Longtime newspaper publisher and Minnesota Iron Range political force Veda Ponikvar has died. She was 96. Ponikvar died Tuesday of natural causes at Heritage Manor Nursing Home ...

HIBBING, Minn. — The story goes that when Hibbing and Chisholm were vying to land the Iron Range Interpretive Center, what became Ironworld, the Hibbing City Council didn’t want to put up any money ...

Veda Frances Ponikvar, 96, of Chisholm, Minn., graduated to Heaven on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2105 at the Heritage Manor Health Care Center in Chisholm. She was born May 26, 1919 in Chisholm, the oldest ...

In fifth grade, Veda Ponikvar decided that she would someday run a newspaper. She did — two of them, for nearly five decades. With them, she also ran the Iron Range, friends and politicians say. Her ...

CHISHOLM, Minn. – The woman known as Minnesota's "Iron Lady" passed away Tuesday in the city where she lived her entire life. Veda Ponikvar, 96, was the publisher of both newspapers in Chisholm for ...

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