Outdoors

Statewide youth deer hunting season kicks off Thursday

10/17/2019 06:21 PM

Thursday is the start of the first statewide youth deer hunting season...

Austin to hosts 9th Minnesota Governor's Pheasant Opener

DNR: Record low number of small game hunters in Minnesota

Insect-borne disease kills wild deer in southeast Minnesota

Trump administration to revoke water protection rule

In this July 11, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks to EPA staff at EPA Headquarters in Washington.

Veterans with PTSD, anxiety turn to beekeeping for relief

In this July 11, 2019 photo, Frank Bartel, a 69-year-old resident of Gregory, Mich., looks at a hive of bees in Superior Township, Mich. He served in the Army from 1968-71, including 11 months in Vietnam. After retiring from Ford, where he had worked as an engineer, Bartel

Snowstorms, heavy rains, take toll on Minnesota pheasants

The Department of Natural Resources' annual roadside survey indicates that Minnesota's pheasant numbers are down 17% from 2018. The index is 11% below the 10-year average and 60% below the long-term average ...

Red Lake Nation worries about arrival of zebra mussels

High catch rates force early closure of Mille Lacs Lake walleye fishing

G-7 countries commit $20 million to help Amazon

This Aug. 15, 2019 satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows closeup view of a fire southwest of Porto Velho Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year as of Tuesday, Aug. 20.

Bee-lieve it: Rare bee spotted in Wisconsin

This May 30, 1997, file photo, shows the varied terrain of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near Boulder, Utah.

US government issues final Utah monument plan

The U.S. government's final management plan for lands in and around a Utah national monument that President Donald Trump downsized doesn't include many new protections for the cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and arches found there, but it does include a few more safeguards than were in a proposal issued last year...

Fires in Amazon rainforest up more than 80% this year, scientists warn

In this Aug. 20, 2019 drone photo released by the Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso, brush fires burn in Guaranta do Norte municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year.

Federal agency to consider protections for lake sturgeon

In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student Matt Balazik prepares to toss a 70-pound Atlantic sturgeon into the James River near Charles City, Va.

The plight of the monarchs: Trump order weakens protections

A monarch butterfly perches on milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, May 31, 2019.

Report: Great Lakes cleanups boost economic development

President Donald Trump walks towards Marine One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, to take the short trip to his golf club where he will be vacationing for a week.

Trump overhauling enforcement of Endangered Species Act

In this Oct. 8, 2018 file photo, emigrant Peak is seen rising above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont. The Trump administration has put a conservative advocate who argues for selling off the nation�s public lands in charge of the nation�s 250 million public acres.

Opponent of nation's public lands is picked to oversee them

Minnesota Timber Rattlesnake found in Winona

Rattlesnake sightings in southeast Minnesota raise concern, DNR calms fear

Giant sturgeon eludes capture ... for now

The hunt continues in the water of Minnehaha Creek for a huge sturgeon that's reaching local celebrity status ...

Invasive viburnum leaf beetle makes its way into the metro

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is warning metro area residents of an invasive beetle first noticed in Eden Prairie in June...

DNR to transfer sturgeon from Minnehaha Creek to Mississippi River

Officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources considered options for a large sturgeon pulled out of Minnehaha Creek Wednesday...

Weather

Fall colors expected to show before temperatures become cooler

It's the last weekend before temperatures go down again...

Sarah Langin took this photo of leaves changing color in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

Traffic

Weekend commute: Watch for lane closures north and south of the metro

Drivers traveling south of the metro to check out some fall colors may want to rethink using Interstate 35 this weekend ...

Local

So Minnesota: Ghostly activity in Wabasha Street Caves

One place in Saint Paul has a very haunted history. The Wabasha Street Caves has a spooky past dating back more than a century.

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