Fonda: With one stroke, Biden can stop Line 3
SOLWAY, Minn. – Actress-activist Jane Fonda called on President Bien to pull the plug [...]
Environment activists scare off Enbridge crew
SOLWAY, Minn. – Faced with a massive protest, the oil pipeline company Enbridge evacuated [...]
Enbridge: Time is past for tribes to object
Environment issue. Enbridge claims flying colors in every test. Also: Hundreds of construction jobs. [...]
Tribes plan anti-pipeline march to headwaters
SOLWAY, Minn. – Tribes planned a last stand before the Canadian oil pipeline Enbridge [...]
State halts all farm deer transport, trading
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Shipment of farm white-tail deer has been banned everywhere anywhere [...]
Rescued big cats to Minnesota sanctuary
SANDSTONE, Minn. -- The Wildcat Sanctuary near Sandstone has accepted some big cats seized [...]
State targeting Pier Ridge moths again
ST.PAUL, Minn.— The state Department of Agriculture is doubling down against gypsy moths in [...]
Big auction: Hi-Crush to highest bidders
WHITEHALL, Wis. – The frac-sand mining giant Hi-Crush is liquidating its Whitehall facility, apparently [...]
WSU plans carport with sun-catching roof
Location. On Main Street at King, facing the main campus gym to the [...]
$2.4 million contract awarded for flood repair
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Stoddard, Wisconsin, company, Water Works Dock & Boat Lift, [...]
Cops: A reminder to dog parents
WINONA, Minn. – Police issued a reminder that dogs are not allowed on the [...]
Expect chem-spewing aircraft buzzing the woods
WINONA, Minn. – The state cautioned people living between County Road 16 and Pier [...]
GOP frowns on Walz clean-car policy
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Among unresolved policy issues in the new state budget agreement [...]
Rail crews neutralize, corral leaked acid
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – The hydrochloric acid that leaked from a Union Pacific derailment [...]
Dangerous corrosive acid leaks from derailment
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – A hazmat emergency team from Rochester determined tentatively that two [...]
Train wreck neighborhood quarantined
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – Authorities told people living near a train wreck in north [...]
Pioneering mattress roundup nets 100
WINONA, Minn. – More than 100 old mattresses, mostly sagging and all bumpy, were [...]
Train derails into shallow Albert Lea lake
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – Most of a 50-car Union Pacific freight train derailed along [...]
Great Lakes erosion in respite
CHARLESTON, S.C. – For years the shores of the Great Lakes have been pummeled [...]
U.S. pipeline paths a crisis for Canada leadership
Enbridge Line 5. U.S. portion of trans-Canada route. Images: Enbridge Parallels I-75 [...]
State firm on saving frog in Trempealeau marsh
MADISON, Wis. – The state endangered species folks and the giant CenturyTel corporation have [...]
Frog habitat at stake in Trempealeau marsh
MARSHLAND, Wis. -- This is a David and Goliath story. Goliath is CenturyLink, the [...]
Clean water lobby hails PolyMet setback
DULUTH, Minn. – Environmentalists who have fought the PolyMet copper mine project are reveling [...]
Court unswayed on PolyMet pollution claims
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's reversal of [...]
Ribbons show sites for new boulevard trees
WINONA, Minn. – Everybody knows what a yellow ribbon tied around an old oak [...]
PolyMet mine facing new obstacles
Tailings ponds. Swiss-owned PolyMet Mining has built a yet-to-be licensed mill to exploit its [...]
Concerns over mine pollution never passed on
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency messed up in reviewing permits for the [...]
Acadia Arbor Day: 100 new trees
Imagine a tree-lined gateway to Arcadia High. Thirty high school seniors are making [...]
City helps Tree Friends with $10,000 grant
WINONA, Minn. -- The Winona City Council pledged $10,000 to a private group, Friends [...]
Animal rights group: End Chatfield chinchilla abuse
CHATFIELD, Minn. – The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals escalated its [...]
WSU chemistry prof: Minimal danger from landfill
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona State University biochemist, Jeanne Franz, said the polyfluoroalkyl substances [...]
Regulator: Winona landfill poisons seem controlled
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has been containing “forever [...]
State agency: Funds needed to assess landfill poisons
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency declared an urgent need for [...]
Propane bankrupting you? Help may be on the way
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Senate passed a bill to help businesses and [...]
Hy-Vee, Kwik Trip, CVS send water to French lsland
CAMPBELL, Wis. – Three stores -- Kwik Trip, Hy-Vee and CVS – responded to [...]
LaCrosse denies clean water in airport neighborhood
CAMPBELL, Wis. – The City of LaCrosse, which operates the regional airport on French [...]
Chippewa decry wolf season as slaughter
ODANAH, Wis. -- Chippewa tribal officials took exception to the Wisconsin Department of Natural [...]
High up, safe yet within lens distance
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Word has spread among bird-watchers about a great horned owl nest [...]
PolyMet faces new obstacle to copper mine
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Army Corps of Engineers has deferred to the new [...]
Solar panels now top ReStore’s blue roof
WINONA, Minn. – The bright blue steel roof on the new Habitat for Humanity [...]
Southwest endangered wolf census growing
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The rarest gray wolf subspecies in North America has seen its [...]
Wisconsin plans limited elk season – very limited
HAYWARD, Wis. – The state wildlife is planning the the fourth elk hunt in [...]
Bull elk harvest: Hunters take five
elk tags this hunting season, the state wildlife agency announced. For the first time [...]
Bull elk harvest: Hunters take five
CLAM LAKE, Wis. –Five elk hunters filled their bull-elk tags this hunting season, the [...]
Young bull elk dies from sudden diet change
WINTER Wis. – A bull elk was found dead from eating corn put out [...]
Mosquito Island ready for boaters, campers again
WINONA, Minn. – The Army Corps of Engineer has reopened Mosquito Island as a [...]
Army Corps restoring, expanding Mosquito Island
WINONA, Minn. – A tiny Mississippi island a mile downriver from Winona is about [...]