Darin Fagerman, a former Minnesota state trooper and retired conservation officer, built a solar-powered cabin eight-tenths of a mile into Canada on Saganaga Lake. Far from any roads, it is a remote ...

The most valuable feature of your lake home may well be the view. Lake lots with southern or western exposure command premium prices, according to Ed Northway, a custom builder in the Brainerd ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

You can’t talk about the house on Thunder Lake without talking about Dennis Olsen. For Olsen, who grew up in a low-income family and at one time lived in a $7-a-month apartment, the house was a dream.

Every 25 minutes, one person in the U.S. dies from radon-related lung cancer. It is the largest environmental cancer risk and the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. Fortunately, the ...

Minnesota Land Trust (MLT) and Northern Waters Land Trust (NWLT) intend to purchase 431 acres from 3M in Hubbard County. The ...

We unleashed our inner anglers on a three-day fishing excursion to Lake of the Woods and this is what happened.

The Rustic Inn Cafe isn’t just a restaurant; it’s a slice of heaven on Earth. Imagine driving along the scenic North Shore of ...

Flavored with spruce tips, juniper and cardamom, it’s a crowd-pleasing NA beverage that’s selling out all over the state.

Mancini’s Char House in St. Paul is the Frank Sinatra of steakhouses – classic, cool, and unapologetically old school. This ...

Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which ...

A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Feb. 14, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.