Fire destroyed a family-owned houseboat rental business on Rainy Lake in northern Minnesota, killing an 85-year-old woman and injuring her daughter and another family member, officials said Thursday.

An International Falls man died after a boating accident on Rainy Lake in Koochiching County just after 10 p.m. Thursday, authorities say. The accident happened in the area of Sportsman's Dock. When ...

I’ve thought of Rainy Lake for years without actually going there. That’s partly because I drive past it whenever I take the North Cascades Highway to eastern Washington, which I do as often as I can.

Rainy Lake resort sells for $3.2M to its longest-tenured employee originally appeared on Bring Me The News. Joe Mershon is an expert on island life. He commutes to work almost daily from his island ...

After peaking at a record high level in mid-June, the water has dropped nearly 2 feet. The National Weather Service predicts the lake will drop by nearly another foot by Friday, July 15. A sandbag ...

On June 1, 2022, Ranier resident Daryl Waller had to evacuate from the home he had lived in for 18 years. He and his family were among hundreds fighting off the rising water from Rainy Lake. “We were ...

I left my towel on the smooth wooden bench and carefully stepped down the slippery rock stairs into the cool clean water of Rainy Lake. Leaning forward into a breast stroke, the cold water a shock at ...

Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on the lake. "This guy walked up ...