Search
Sections

Weather Forecast

Close

Outdoors

    July 2, 2017
    The 'Pink Lady' fishing device helps anglers troll their lures deep in the water column. Clint Austin / Forum News Service
    Passing it on: Sharing the magic of the 'Pink Lady'
    We were making our last portage on a recent canoe trip when we saw a procession of folks coming toward us. The party was coming from a parking...
    sportsJuly 2, 2017 - 8:59am
    July 1, 2017
    A pair of redbellied snakes were among the first specimens caught, weighed, measured and then released by Katie Leuenberger of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources during the Swedes Forest bioblitz on June 17. This the male of the pair; the female carried eggs. Tom Cherveny / Forum News Service
    Odd-named creatures thrive in amazing Minnesota landscape
    SWEDES FOREST, Minn. — Everyone came looking to meet up with some odd-named characters, and found them. It's the five-lined skink, aka...
    NewsJuly 1, 2017 - 10:19am
    June 30, 2017
    Sam Cook
    Cook: 'So, we were on the Seal River...'
    Visiting a writing friend of mine many years ago, I saw a sign above the desk in his writing space. Not a sign, really, just a piece of white...
    sportsJune 30, 2017 - 9:33am
    June 29, 2017
    Gary Gilbert, 55, of Becker, Minn., hoists a 59 1/2-inch muskie he found floating dead on Lake Mille Lacs June 17, 2017. Had the fish been caught alive, it likely would have set the state record for catch-and-release muskies, which are measured by length. The current record is 56 7/8 inches, set in 2016 on Pelican Lake in Otter Tail County. (Courtesy of Gary Gilbert)
    Monster muskie found floating would have broken MN state record had it been caught alive
    As Gary Gilbert began lifting the thing out of the water, he couldn't believe its size. "It just kept coming and coming," said Gilbert. Gilbert...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 4:24pm
    A canoe-country angler fishes the shoreline of a small lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. File photo / Forum News Service
    IRS shuts down Ely's longest-running canoe outfitter business
    ELY, Minn. — Ely's oldest operating canoe-outfitting business has been shut down by the Internal Revenue Service for nonpayment of taxes,...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 8:55am
    June 28, 2017
    Tribune photo by Gary MillerHot weather means plenty of beach goers Tuesday at Kandiyohi County Park 7 on Games Lake. Tobacco-free beach signs are posted at the park.
    Popular central Minnesota lakes near 'tipping points' for water quality
    SPICER — The waters of Games Lake and Lake Andrew are still clear enough for swimmers to see their toes when they wade into them, or for...
    NewsJune 28, 2017 - 3:11pm
    June 27, 2017
    A bear mauled a cyclist in the Alaskan woods. His friend came to his rescue.
    When Alex Ippoliti and James Fredrick met two months ago, the men bonded over their shared affinity for cycling on gravel roads. There weren't...
    NewsJune 27, 2017 - 8:26am
    June 26, 2017
    Chisholm man pleads guilty in trapping case
    DULUTH, Minn. — One of two Chisholm men admitted Monday, June 26, to his role in what authorities said was one of the state's largest trapping...
    NewsJune 26, 2017 - 9:00pm
    Tom Landwehr
    Minn. DNR fee increases take effect July 1
    ST. PAUL — It's going to cost a few more dollars to enter Minnesota state parks and to register snowmobiles and ATVs in the state as of...
    NewsJune 26, 2017 - 3:41pm
    June 25, 2017
    Always in Season: Barn swallows are a love-hate species
    The barn swallow is a pretty little bird. It also can be an aggressive little pest. Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend...
    sportsJune 25, 2017 - 4:55pm
    Strong winds and looming clouds were no hindrance to Red Lake Nation fishing guide Daris Rosebear, who landed this 24-inch walleye June 15 while fishing from shore near the headwaters of the Red Lake River on tribal lands. Rosebear, of Red Lake, Minn., operates Rosebear Guide Service on the reservation. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald)
    Red Lake fishing trip offers mixed bag of fish from shore on the Red Lake River
    RED LAKE, Minn.—The wind was howling—again—and rain a couple of days earlier likely had made the backroads muddy and treacherous....
    sportsJune 25, 2017 - 2:54pm
    Brad Dokken
    Brad Dokken: Fishing a game of expectations
    I took a walk to an off-the-beaten-path fishing hole the other day and lost track of the number of fish I landed when the count climbed into...
    sportsJune 25, 2017 - 12:51pm
    June 24, 2017
    Tony Moe of the Fourtown Grygla Sportsman's Club stands by a gate blocking access to a .7-mile length of trail that isn't open to motorized vehicles in a new proposed trail plan for motorized access in Beltrami Island State Forest. Moe and others would like to see the trail included in the plan so the part of the trail now open isn't a dead end route. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald)
    ATV groups seek more in Beltrami forest plan
    BELTRAMI ISLAND STATE FOREST, Minn.—There they go, chainsaws buzzing and wood chips flying, clearing yet another big tree that's fallen...
    sportsJune 24, 2017 - 8:58am
    June 22, 2017
    Minnesota residents warned of poison hemlock
    LANESBORO, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has issued warning about the dangers of the Conium maculatum plant, commonly...
    NewsJune 22, 2017 - 4:32pm
    June 19, 2017
    Bear kills runner who texted to say he was being chased during Alaska mountain run
    A 16-year-old runner who texted his mother that he was being chased by a bear as he competed in a popular race over mountainous terrain was killed...
    NewsJune 19, 2017 - 1:59pm
    First« NewerPage 2Older »
    randomness