In 1962, the historian Evan Jones published a book with the title “The Minnesota: Forgotten River.” While the book was really about the storied history along the river (such as Henry David Thoreau’s ...

WHEATON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A woman in western Minnesota captured "ice pancakes" floating along a river on New Year’s Day. After a string of warm weather led to a lack of snow and ice in December, cooler ...

National Weather Service said there is still a lot of variability in where the next round of rain will fall, but it looks to miss west central Minnesota. The Minnesota River remains in its banks ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Water levels continue to rise in many spots throughout the area, putting our river cities on alert. Over the ensuing days and weeks, WCCO will continue to monitor the rising waters in ...

MANKATO — While votes on whether to continue water-storage solutions at the Minnesota River Congress are not tallied, the annual meeting made clear that passion to act quickly to protect and improve ...

Come July 1, anglers can legally use two lines during the open water season while fishing the Minnesota River downstream of the Granite Falls dam to Pool 2 on the Mississippi River. Gov. Tim Walz ...

A new pedestrian bridge at one of Minnesota's most popular state parks has opened to the public. The recently built bridge at ...

Cole Premo is digital manager for CBS Minnesota. For more than a decade, he's been covering breaking news and weather, daily topics, stories from the Native community and more in Minnesota.

Southern Minnesota motorists know the stretch of road well. Right where the Jolly Green Giant billboard stands grinning on a hillside, U.S. Hwy. 169 dips from the prairie down into the wooded lowlands ...

ST. PETER, MINN. — No man is an island. Neither was this southern Minnesota sports bar, until the floods came tumbling in. Neisen’s Riverside Sports Bar in this college town now stands surrounded by ...