ITASCA STATE PARK, MINN. - Lake Itasca is almost as wild now as it was 193 years ago, when it was named by an explorer from Michigan seeking the true source of the Mississippi River. Some of the red ...

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Itasca State Park in Northern Minnesota is one of those destinations that every Minnesota needs to visit once in their lifetime. And in some, multiple times. The park is one of the oldest in the ...

Rick Baine, Ryan Webb and Matt Roy stop in Cape Girardeau while participating in the Warrior Paddle Expedition Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. The trio began at the source of the Mississippi River, Lake ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — The operators of a longtime, popular attraction at Itasca State Park dry-docked their business this summer, claiming the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources changed rules to ...

Explorers Willard Glazier, Giacomo Beltrami and Henry Schoolcraft all believed they had correctly discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Giacomo Beltrami claimed to have ...

Aug. 12—BEMIDJI — Three years after donating his amassed collection of 900 farm toys to Lake Itasca Pioneer Farmers, Lloyd Holy of Bemidji has added a new addition to the display. The noticeable ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirms the presence of zebra mussels in Bass Lake, near Cohasset in Itasca County. DNR invasive species staff issued a release on Monday, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Yet another aquatic invasive species has invaded a Minnesota lake — this time the signal crayfish, a native of the Pacific Northwest confirmed in Lake Winona. The Minnesota ...

A man from southern Minnesota was killed Tuesday in a lake near Grand Rapids after an electrical extension cord dropped from a boat lift and into the water he was standing in, the Itasca County ...