Confirmed cougar sightings are becoming more frequent in Minnesota, but evidence suggests the large cats are most likely rare ...

Minnesota’s gray wolves will be removed from the federal government’s threatened species list and returned to state management in January. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will ...

Last month, the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District discovered four adult zebra mussels in Chanhassen’s Lake Ann, ...

The McLeod County Board took a brief look under the hood of local Department of Natural Resources operations this past week when regional director Scott Roemhildt visited with his staff.

Koochiching County officials added noxious weeds to the annual Minnesota Agricultural Department commissioner’s order. The commissioner’s order lists three weeds for eradication, nine for control, two ...

Once rare in Iowa, ospreys have taken up residence along the state's waterways and are successfully fledging their young, the ...

Area wildlife managers across Minnesota soon will begin planning and implementing updated strategic conservation efforts designed to foster stewardship of ducks, pheasants and their habitats. These ef ...

Members of the Hutchinson City Council made the following unanimous decisions at their March 28 meeting: SURVEY: Approved a proposal authorizing staff to work on the National Citizens Survey for ...

Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, in coordination with other Tribal entities, local governments, landowners and other stakeholders, has ...

Instead of using traps or dynamite, some Wisconsin landowners are peacefully resolving beaver conflicts with flow devices.

Lucky for me, the city of Minneapolis offers a free disaster preparedness training course called Ready Camp, which I hope can help me stop imagining my tornadic demise and, instead, make a list of ...