GRAND MARAIS – When Benny Silence handed me the box of his mother’s writing he had tears in his eyes.

When water temperatures are high like they are now, many of the salmon coming over Bonneville Dam head for Drano Lake or the Klickitat and Deschutes rivers for cooler waters. These fish will ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The focus on Lake Erie walleye fishing will drift eastward toward Fairport Harbor, Geneva and Conneaut, where large schools of walleye are feasting on smelt and emerald shiners found ...

William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject. By Jay Gabler Happy Friday! I’m spending this weekend catching up with friends and heading to the home of my ...

Erin is a co-host of "The 4" on WCCO and a two-time Emmy Award-winning reporter passionate about experiential storytelling and taking viewers on an adventure - be it inside a bear den, at the bottom ...

This story is a part of a series on potential mining near the Boundary Waters. See more stories here. In a sweeping action Tuesday, Minnesota's governor banned mining near the Boundary Waters. It's ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has taken executive action to stop certain state mining near the Boundary Waters. The order directs the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Pollution ...

Minnesota has been quietly sitting on one of the greatest outdoor secrets in the entire country, and it’s called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It’s located just outside the small town of ...

During one of his canoe and fishing trips in the BWCA this summer, YouTuber content creator Brandon Farr captured the epicenter of an area now burned by wildfires. Indeed, the closure of the entire ...

Pat Moline of Maple Grove, Minn. steers a canoe on to Sawbill Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on Monday. The wilderness had just reopened for day trips following a closure because of wildfires.

Officials in northern Minnesota have extended a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness closure order until Oct. 1 as wildfires have spread to cover more than 72,000 acres of land. The order could be ...

Nearly 12 million walleye fingerlings were stocked this summer in North Dakota waters, boosting the state’s fisheries and almost beating a state production record. Some 2.3 million walleye this year ...