Carnivorous plants, a picturesque pebble beach and outcrops of a rare type of volcanic lava rock highlight Minnesota’s newest nature preserve. The Icelandite Coastal Fen Scientific and Natural Area is ...

A sign for the Lake Steward program is posted on Dorothy Whitmer’s dock in East Gull Lake, Minn., on June 3. Are Minnesotans willing to rethink their vision of beauty to save wild shorelines? On Gull ...

DULUTH — When I shared the news last year that I was relocating from Minneapolis to Duluth, many of my Twin Cities friends expressed jealousy. I was moving to the North Shore! At least, that was how ...

I slipped off my snowshoes and hiked on a beaten track of hard-packed snow through the woods to the edge of a rock cliff 200 feet above a shimmering, azure Lake Superior. Cold silence. A chilly ...

As more homes creep closer to Minnesota's environmentally sensitive lakeshore, the state Department of Natural Resources is pushing back by suing a western Minnesota township that allowed a property ...

35 people rescued from ice chunk that broke off from Upper Red Lake shore, MN officials say. Photo from Jacob Campbell via Unsplash First responders rescued 35 people who were stranded on a piece of ...