"The design is relatively easy. The construction is relatively cheap. It's all of the permitting afterwards," City Engineer Gordon Phair told the City Council.

Bill McBride, Bill’s Gun Shop, explained he has been in business for 45 years. He spoke in favor of the use of a rifle for deer hunting; a rifle is more accurate and most have optics which allow for a ...

Lake Calhoun project will replace two dams and a timber-frame bridge, all installed in 1938, and improve recreation access, ...

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a ...

Kennan Bruening, an invasive-carp specialist with the Minnesota DNR, navigates July 10 the Root Rivernear Hokah, Minn. Researchers are monitoring the area for invasivve carp, which have been detected ...

An ongoing search for the bear that attacked a northwestern Wisconsin woman earlier this month has now ended.

DNR Report: Heat brings out recreational boaters, limits angling success Minnesota Department of Natural Resources report for the week of July 28, 2025.

Geologists in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Aggregate Resource Mapping Program have completed a new map showing the potential for sand, gravel and crushed stone resources in Yellow ...

La Crosse police continue investigation into Eliotte Heinz's death after her body was found in the Mississippi River, with final autopsy results expected to take several months.

Jul. 26—Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is an inexact science at best, but based on drumming counts, at least, Minnesota's breeding population was down from last year. In a ...

Minnesota ruffed grouse drumming counts down from 2024, DNR says The decline came as no surprise, the DNR said, because spring drumming counts in 2024 were the highest they’d been since 1972.

The deadline to purchase a lottery bear license is Friday, Aug. 1, the DNR said. Unsold lottery-awarded licenses will be available to any eligible person beginning at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 6.