The tiny goldfish you can pick up at pet store for a few cents might not look like an environmental threat, but they can grow into a huge problem if set free in lakes or ponds – mainly because ...

Minnesota Sea Grant notes that the tool estimates when lakes will be free of ice, but it does not show when ice is safe. "Ice conditions can and do change rapidly, and safety is the responsibility ...

Now, past mid-April, Downing isn’t as sure all lakes will be ice-free by May 13, but he’s sticking with his prediction of mostly open water for the Minnesota opener.

DETROIT LAKES, Minn.-In what looks to be one of the earliest ice-outs ever, most of Big Detroit Lake-one of the most popular lakes in western Minnesota --- was wavy and free again on Tuesday ...

Expect more lakes in southern Minnesota to lose ice-cover this weekend. The combination of mild temperatures near 60 degrees and high winds Saturday will work on removing ice on some lakes.

Six shallow southern Minnesota lakes shook off their winter ice Tuesday through Saturday, the first of Minnesota's 15,000 lakes to go blue after one of the coldest winters in recent decades. Iowa ...

Loon entangled in fishing line rescued in northern Minnesota 00:16. GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Biologists took a midnight cruise on a northern Minnesota lake to help a loon in distress. The Minnesota ...