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Fire weather watch issued for Thursday for majority of state

05/05/2021 05:33 PM

The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for Thursday, covering central, northeast, northwest and western Minnesota...

2 bald eagles found shot dead in northern Minnesota

'A picture of beauty during this difficult week': Cherry blossoms blooming in Como Park

Cherry blossoms are seen Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at Como Park in St. Paul. The cherry blossom trees that line the Mannheimer Memorial were gifted to the city by the Japanese government in 2012.

More Minnesota counties added to spring restrictions

New CWD infection found in Beltrami County

MNICS: Over 500 wildland fires across Minnesota, 20K acres burned since start of March

DNR clears up confusion, says May 15 is fishing opener

While the opener usually is over Mother's Day weekend, it will be a week later this year ...

Warm spring weather means start of garden preparations

DNR: Both spouses must be present for purchase of combination angling, hunting licenses

Ice out declared on Lake Minnetonka

Sheriff David Hutchinson (right) on Lake Minnetonka on March 30, 2021.

DNR adds 12 counties to burn restriction list

2nd eaglet hatches on DNR EagleCam

The eaglet hatched around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, and one of the little bird's parents was there to watch as it escaped its shell ...

DNR to lead innovative search to remove invasive carp

FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources shows a silver carp that was caught in the Illinois Waterway approximately nine miles away from Lake Michigan. The first silver carp captured in Minnesota was in 2008.

Need for disputed pipeline argued in Minnesota appeals court

Hundreds gather along the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, March 11, 2021, to call on President Biden to stop the tar sands Line 3 pipeline that Enbridge is currently constructing in northern Minnesota.

DNR: Mille Lacs Lake to allow early and late-season walleye harvest in 2021

DNR warns of ice conditions with recent warm weather

In this Dec. 13, 2019, file photo, thousands of snow geese take flight over a farm field at their winter grounds, in the Skagit Valley near Conway, Wash. The Biden administration on Monday, March 8, 2021, reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government's power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species. Trump ended criminal prosecutions against companies responsible for bird deaths that could have been prevented.

Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked

A gray wolf is seen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn

US states look to step up wolf kills, pushed by Republicans

Mississippi River cities join project to map plastic litter

Minnesota tourism lost estimated $7.1B in travel spending during pandemic

According to Tourism Economics, the pandemic-related travel downturn has cost the state roughly $7.1 billion in travel spending losses...

Updated sunfish regulations in effect on nearly 100 Minnesota waters

Sunfish anglers will need to closely check the 2021 Minnesota Fishing Regulations booklet and signs at water accesses for new sunfish limits that are now in effect on 94 bodies of water...

2 skiers defy death in descent of Yosemite's Half Dome

Jason Torlano, 45, and Zach Milligan, 40, completed the descent in five hours Sunday by carefully carving their way in crusty snow and using ropes to rappel several sections of bare rock known as the “death slabs" beneath the iconic face of Half Dome ...

In this photo provided by Jason Torlano, Zach Milligan is shown on his descent down Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Two men climbed some 4,000 feet to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome in subfreezing temperatures and skied down the famously steep monolith to the valley floor. Jason Torlano, 45, and Zach Milligan, 40, completed the daring descent in five hours on Sunday by charging down Half Dome's arching back and using ropes to rappel down several sections of bare rock known as the

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