Some of the best retrievers in the nation will be on the line today for their final tests in the Duluth Retriever Club's annual licensed field trial. Competition began Friday and will conclude ...

Tom Fait figures he’s due to qualify one of his retrievers for another national field trial championship when he’s about 84. Fait, who lives on Bowman Lake north of Duluth, recently returned from ...

John Thomas with one of the black Labs he has handled to national field trial titles. Courtesy of John Thomas Thirty years ago John W. Thomas Jr. of Rocky Point got his first taste of retriever field ...