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Local people tell of horror and loss after surviving occupation by Russian troops and missile strikes

MINNEAPOLIS — When the COVID pandemic shuttered the Department of Natural Resources' program to teach Minnesotans how to hunt deer in 2020, outreach specialists adapted and produced an 11-part web series, covering topics like finding the correct firearm to scouting locations to field-dressing a whitetail.

DULUTH, Minn. — For the past three years scientists at University of Minnesota Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute have been building houses for Minnesota's largest member of the weasel family, then attaching them to trees across Northland forests.

When 114 red pines were bulldozed inside Red Lake Wildlife Management Area last year to create new habitat, infuriated Minnesota timber industry officials denounced the trees' felling as "destruction" and a "slap in the face."

ALDEN TOWNSHIP, Minn. — In the woods northwest of Two Harbors, in a thicket of young aspen and alder, Bailey Petersen bent down to inspect a small patch of disturbed dirt.

In recaptured Lyman, Kim Sengupta finds evidence of Russian atrocities and Ukrainian commanders ready to administer their own justice

In Minnesota's pheasant hunting heyday, WCCO radio would broadcast live from the state's hinterlands on opening day, reveling in an event — in effect a state holiday — that was as much about community spirit as it was about the splendor, and magic, of roosters flushing into cobalt skies on…

Win Mitchell has lived long enough to see the good times, bad times and good times again on Marsh Lake, a 5,000-acre bulge in the Minnesota River.

Avian flu is expected to spike again and Illinois is the latest Lake Michigan state to advice waterfowl hunters on what to notice and precautions for the upcoming seasons.

Kim Sengupta in Hostomel meets the Ukrainian drone operators putting themselves closer to the enemy to help gather intelligence

The pesticides linked to bee, butterfly and pollinator deaths across the nation are being found in the organs of far more of Minnesota's wild deer, and in higher concentrations, than previously thought.