Outdoors

Storm topples often-photographed sea stack at Tettegouche State Park
A beloved and often-photographed sea stack along the Lake Superior shoreline of northeastern Minnesota's Tettegouche State Park has been toppled by this weekend's winter storm.
Face-to-face with a grizzly
Duluth author Alex Messenger's new book recounts how his encounter with a grizzly bear during a 600-mile canoe trip changed his life.
It's Fat Bear Week in Alaska's Katmai National Park - time to fill out your bracket
Bears preparing for hibernation need to eat as much as they can for the winter. In Alaska, it's turned into an ursine March Madness with bears going head to head to see who is the fattest.
A hiker on Wednesday said he crawled for two days through rugged Australian woodland with a broken leg and arm after falling six meters (20 feet) down a waterfall and then dropping his cellphone in a creek.
Minnesota’s busiest state park reopens after flood cleanup
Fort Snelling State Park is the state’s busiest, with about a million day visitors every year. Extended flooding shut the park down for six months and covered parts of it with as much as 3 feet of silt this year. But it reopened Tuesday, just in time for the fall colors to start to turn.
Red Lake Nation confronts a new invader: Zebra mussels
Zebra mussels found earlier this year in Upper Red Lake are likely to spread to Lower Red Lake, threatening the reservation’s economic and spiritual core — and its massive walleye fishery. That’s left tribal leaders frustrated and angry.