Northern Minnesota

This week, we want to hear about your favorite local items to give as gifts.

Aaron Brown is a writer, columnist and teacher who spends each deer hunting season in Minnesota with generations of his family.

With berries scarce in the forest, opportunistic bears will seek alternative food sources like garbage and bird feeders.

Minnesota DNR bear researcher Andy Tri says bear complaints are the highest since the agency began recording them in 1980, and a bad berry year usually leads to additional human-bear conflicts.

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith visited with farmers in Blackduck about the soggy start to the planting season. Congress still has far to go on the already-delayed 2022 Farm Bill.

A list of candidates in contested primaries in Northern Minnesota in 2024. Primary election day is Aug. 13, though voting opens June 28.

A list of candidates in contested races in Northern Minnesota in 2024, as of the May candidate filings in districts in which a primary election is possible.

There wasn't enough moisture last winter to extinguish Canadian wildfires that are blazing again, leading to an early start to smoky skies above Minnesota.

The season for Northern pike, walleye, sauger, and inland trout opens Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Minnesota.

Farmers markets abound in Northern Minnesota. We've collected a list of locations, dates and times in towns like Pine River, Walker, Grand Rapids, Cook, Virginia, Bemidji, Brainerd and more!