Man with prior murder conviction charged in Lake Stevens killing
Mark Downey spent nearly 18 years in prison for murder. He is now accused of killing Katie McQueen in August. LAKE STEVENS — A man was mowing his neighbor’s property north of Lake Stevens when a ...
Where Minnesotans can sauna this winter in the ‘land of ... 10,000 cold plunges’
As temperatures drop and the lakes start to ice over, many Minnesotans are headed to the beach. It’s sauna season, after all.
In Search of Sauna Nirvana Around Lake Superior
On a 750-mile road trip through the heart of sauna culture in the United States, a writer searches for the perfect ...
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Boater reports finding man’s body in Lake Lanier near Dawsonville Highway bridge
A boater called 911 Monday, Dec. 16, saying he found a body in Lake Lanier near the Dawsonville Highway bridge, police said.
A plunge through thin ice, a panic and a struggle for safety
Annie Battle Lake in central Minnesota radiated with the possibility of good fishing as Dean Paron and three friends hauled their sleds of jigging rods and other gear onto the ice. They fanned out ...
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Believed to have been extinct, researchers 'rediscover' fish species on Lake Superior
The shortnose cisco, a species of freshwater whitefish, likely went extinct in the Great Lakes during the 1980s, scientists ...
Great Lakes fish thought extinct for decades rediscovered – in an unexpected place
The Shortnose Cisco was thought wiped out by invasive species and overfishing decades ago from where it was known to live, in Lakes Michigan and Huron.
Huge 'Wall of Water' Could Devastate Great Lake
A reservoir with waste from a Minnesota mine is at the heart of a legal battle. The consequences for Lake Superior could be huge.
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Duluth ice skater's body found; authorities warn of thin ice
The body of an ice skater from Duluth was pulled from Woodstock Bay in Superior, Wisconsin, on Monday. It was one of several ...
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We don’t know what’s at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Climate change demands we find out.
with depths ranging from 210 feet in Lake Erie to over 1,300 feet in parts of Lake Superior. If all that water was spread across the contiguous United States, the nation would be evenly submerged ...
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The factors behind the spectacular snow event that hit the Great Lakes
Because the driving mechanism is cold air riding over the top of a relatively warm body of water, conditions for lake-effect snow, including intense events, may become more likely – at least for ...