Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes — although there are technically 11,482. One of the best places to experience lake life is a remote wilderness in northern Minnesota called the Boundary ...

Spiny waterflea, an invasive species accidentally imported from Europe and Asia, continues to spread in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Officials Thursday confirmed its presence in ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS – On Tuesday while snow tumbled in waves across Basswood Lake, Stu McEntyre turned his back to a strong wind and fiddled with a tip-up.

A group of canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area was to the hospital Thursday with mild hypothermia after two canoes capsized. The Lake County Sheriff's Department responded after receiving ...

A dispatcher in Minnesota’s Lake County got the first cell phone call late in the evening of Aug. 7. A family, camping on an island in Basswood Lake in the remote Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

ELY (AP) -- A St. Paul man died and his brother was missing after a boating accident on Basswood Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Lake County Sheriff Steve Peterson said three men were in ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. U.S. Forest officials have closed some areas of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area because more small wildfires have ignited. Three fires are now burning ...

Another suspect in last summer's shooting spree on Basswood Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness pleaded guilty today to reduced charges. 99¢/month for 3 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Show ...

The Lake County Sheriff's Office says they received report of the emergency just after 1 p.m. on Basswood Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Latest U.S.

Casey James Fenske, 19, of Ely, admitted Monday in Lake County District Court he fired about 50 shots into the water from his .22-caliber handgun during the incident on Basswood Lake on Aug. 7.

Five Ely men charged with terrorizing campers on Basswood Lake on the night of Aug. 7 made their first appearance in State District Court in Lake County in Two Harbors on Monday but entered no pleas.