The Perseids, the most popular meteor shower, will soon reach its peak. For best visibility, make sure you find a dark location and avoid light pollution from cities.
Yellowstone visitation is down 40 percent after historic floods washed out roads. One neighboring town is struggling to survive, so park officials have opened a temporary road to try to help.
State agencies are investigating what killed an estimated 2,500 fish, mostly brown trout, along a stretch of creek in southeastern Minnesota earlier this week.
A big black dog who goes by the name of Luigi, returned home this week after spending a month in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The dog was separated from his owners during a portage near the Sawbill Trail.
A program that allows travelers to cross into certain remote parts of Canada could resume as soon as Friday. The permits will allow canoeists to cross the border from Minnesota into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park for the first time in more than two years.
Minnesotans have had the chance to weigh in on names for state snowplows — twice. Now the Minnesota Department of Transportation is giving the public the chance to pick from among five finalists for the name of a newly designated bike route across the state.
The study — the first of its kind in southern Minnesota in about two decades — should provide valuable information about how deer are moving across the landscape, their habitat preference and survival rates.
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