Hundreds of thousands of sandbags are protecting homes and businesses along the shore of Rainy Lake, as residents and Koochiching County officials brace for the lake to rise perhaps another half-foot ...

Rainy Lake and the International Falls and Ranier area will be featured on the “Fishing the Midwest” television show this weekend. The show was taped last July and features host Bob Jensen fishing ...

Early Friday morning, the Rainy Lake water level rose higher than the 1950 record of 1112.95 feet, measured at Bear Pass and Fort Frances. After going down briefly, Rainy Lake officially surpassed the ...

The emergency grade raise of state Highway 11 east of International Falls by the Minnesota Department of Transportation is allowing businesses such as Island View Lodge and the Sha Sha Resort in the ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Sandbags line properties along a flooded riverfront road in Fort Frances in this drone ...

The Koochiching County Board in northern Minnesota voted Tuesday morning to close its four county-owned boat ramps on the Rainy River until further notice in an effort to discourage anglers from ...

BAUDETTE, Minn. – As expected, the current cold snap has slowed the progress of open water down the Rainy River for anglers hungry for their first boat fishing of the year. The river on the ...

The latest satellite photo of Lake of the Woods, taken this week, shows ice on the big lake breaking up. Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake near International Falls are among the last lakes in the state ...