Located near Park Rapids in the northwestern part of the state, Itasca stands as Minnesota’s oldest state park, a pristine ...

I am never sure of time or place on a Railroad,” Charles Dickens wrote in 1856 as rail travel was beginning to change our concept of distance. I recognized the feeling when I recently rode Amtrak’s ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

Rather than Bud’s Landing — the moniker hung on it beginning in the mid-1930s when Bud Joseph founded it — the site would be ...

A former intermodal barge shipping facility along the Mississippi River is being transformed with various new features ...

Do you know why Jackson is the state capital? The city was founded in 1821. Here's this history of how it became the seat of ...

And beginning in spring 2026, visitors can go aboard the only floating barrelhouse in the country with their new Barge to Bottle Tour, called the Chartered Experience.

Tyler Stafslien is a fourth-generation farmer who’s worked his family’s land in central North Dakota for about 20 years.

For at least one night this week, Colin Simmons was Cheez-It royalty. The Texas football team, though, needs him to expand his kingdom to cover the SEC and college football's playoff in 2026.

A dark, jagged vein of open water slices through the endless white of a frozen Mississippi River in this 1948 aerial shot. As sub-zero temperatures threatened to stop the flow of post-war commerce, ...

HELLO EVERYONE AND THANKS FOR WATCHING ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY-- I'M ERIN PICKENS. A FLOWOOD WOMAN ESCAPED A POTENTIALLY DEADLY FATE IS SHARING HER STORY OF SURVIVAL. A JAM-PACKED SCHEDULE OF HOLIDAY ...