Communities in several counties ... Minnesota National Guard to aid in fighting the fast-growing wildfires which have prompted emergency evacuations and closed several popular recreational areas ...

Where? Anoka. The town on the Rum River is one of 13 cities and counties in Minnesota that are vying for a license to operate a cannabis store. Laid-off miners that work at two Iron Range mines ...

The warning affects 77 counties and places ... conditions might improve. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources maintains a daily fire danger rating map on their website that shows current ...

Red flag weather warnings, signaling conditions are ripe for fires to spread quickly and grow out of control, were in effect across dozens of Minnesota counties. By late in the week, cooler ...

After 77 of 87 Minnesota counties were in a red flag warning on Sunday, 80 of 87 counties are under a red flag warning on Monday. A red flag warning means fire weather conditions are in place ...

A tornado watch is in effect until 8 p.m. Thursday, May 15. The National Weather Service issued the watch for 21 Minnesota counties, including Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties. The watch was ...

Three uncontained wildfires are burning across approximately 20,000 acres in northern Minnesota. The fires, fueled by dry heat and strong winds, have destroyed structures and prompted evacuations.

Other major wildfires in Minnesota’s past were even bigger. The Great Hinckley fire of 1894 burned 350,000 acres and killed 418. The Cloquet-Moose Lake fires in 1918 burned 250,000 acres killed 453.

the National Weather Service issued the warning for seven northeastern Minnesota counties - Beltrami, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, and St. Louis - from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. The ...

You can get in touch with Joe by emailing joe.edwards@newsweek.com Firefighters are battling three major wildfires in Minnesota ... according to a map from Watch Duty, a public safety nonprofit ...