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Bacteria was found in the city's water supply last week and residents are boiling their water for the fifth consecutive morning.
Residents of Brainerd remain under an order to boil their water -- four days after a thunderstorm brought down the city's water system.
A conservation success story: US blue whales rebound close to historic levels
A new study says there are now about 2,200 blue whales off the West Coast. That's roughly 97 percent of historical levels, according to researchers.
Minnesota to Washington by canoe
For more than a year, Dave and Amy Freeman, of Grand Marais, have been planning a canoe trip to Washington as a way to call attention to -- and protest -- plans for copper mining in northeast Minnesota which they say threatens the wilderness. Yesterday, they left.