PALO — For 87 years, people have gathered at the Loon Lake Community Center to celebrate the beginning of Lent and sled down a big hill together. It's all part of the annual Laskiainen, a Finnish ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Biologists took a midnight cruise on a northern Minnesota lake to help a loon in distress. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says a biologist with the U.S. Geological ...

GRAND RAPIDS — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding anglers to retrieve as much of their broken-off fishing line as possible after an incident with a loon. Biologists for the DNR ...

DULUTH — A citizen science effort that began 30 years ago and has accumulated reams of data on Minnesota's loon population still needs more volunteers to check for loons on northern lakes this summer.

WASECA, Minn. – More than 100 Canada geese and 25 mallards have been found dead on a southern Minnesota lake. Hundreds of geese fly over Loon Lake in Waseca every day. But since Saturday, it's become ...

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CROSSLAKE — The National Loon Center in Crosslake recently announced that U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith each requested that a Senate appropriations subcommittee designate $1,700,000 in ...

Minnesota (WCCO) — It’s peak summer on Minnesota’s Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. “So it sounds like a territorial challenge that’s starting,” said Sheila ...

Minnesota (WCCO) -- It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila ...