DULUTH — A citizen science effort that began 30 years ago and has accumulated reams of data on Minnesota's loon population still needs more volunteers to check for loons on northern lakes this summer.

It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

CROSSLAKE — The National Loon Center and Northern Waters Land Trust, in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources–Loon Restoration Project, announced the return of the summer ...

BRAINERD — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is seeking volunteers to help monitor the loon population in Aitkin, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and Lake counties. Volunteers are needed for a ...

CROSSLAKE — The National Loon Center in Crosslake recently announced that U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith each requested that a Senate appropriations subcommittee designate $1,700,000 in ...

Not everything Minnesotans ran up the flagpole on Statehood Day was the new state flag. At Herold Flags in Rochester, customers were snapping up Minnesota flags — plural. “In all the years I’ve been ...

The University of Minnesota and the National Loon Center Foundation are working to build a center for loon education and conservation near Brainerd. The first-ever National Loon Center is expected to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A massive, new piece of art just landed in St. Paul's Midway. It's a silver loon and it's flying in with a message to the neighborhood. It is the neighborhood to what was formerly a ...

Minnesota (WCCO) — It’s peak summer on Minnesota’s Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. “So it sounds like a territorial challenge that’s starting,” said Sheila ...