Outdoors

Rocks and vegetation cover Highway 70 following a landslide in the Dixie Fire zone on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, in Plumas County, Calif. Heavy rains blanketing Northern California created slide and flood hazards in land scorched during last summer's wildfires.

Drought-stricken California doused by major storm

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A powerful storm barreled toward Southern California after flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires across the northern part of the state.

After California wildfire, thousands of trees to be removed

In this Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, file photo, firefighters battle the Windy Fire as it burns in the Trail of 100 Giants grove of Sequoia National Forest, Calif. The California highway connecting visitors to the world's two largest sequoia trees remains closed so crews can remove as many as 10,000 trees weakened by wildfires, drought, disease or age.

Minneapolis lifts even-odd water sprinkling restrictions as drought conditions improve

Peak, post-peak fall color reported in portions of state

A map of fall color in the state as of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.

Early antlerless deer hunt season starts next week in Minnesota

Thousands march in Brussels to demand tougher climate action

Protestors hold banners and signs as they participate in a climate march in Brussels, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. Some 80 organizations are joining in a climate march through Brussels to demand change and push politicians to effective action in Glasgow later this month.

Biden discusses restoring protections for national monuments

President Joe Biden is restoring two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and development some red-rock lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.

Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

Minnesota, Wisconsin hunters may face ammunition shortages this fall

Zebra mussels found in Ramsey County lake

Wisconsin DNR defies board, resets fall wolf quota

FILE - In this Oct. 10. 2012 file photo, a timber wolf named Comet is seen at the Timber Wolf Preservation Society in Greendale, Wis. A coalition of animal rights groups planned to file a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to stop Wisconsin's fall wolf hunt.

Minnesota DNR plans review of mining risk to Boundary Waters

Minnesota regulators will take public comments from Nov. 9 to Dec. 8 as part of a court-ordered review of whether the state's regulations for nonferrous mining are adequate to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Court of Appeals sets precedent for drainage ditch projects

Popular wilderness area closures lifted after summer fires

US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Death's come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 assorted birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct. It's a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but government scientists say they've exhausted efforts to find these 23.

DNR: 5 deer from CWD-positive farm received in Minnesota in 2016, 2017

The beach along the eastside of the Big Island Nature Park.

Big Island Park gets a new chapter

DNR lifts burning restrictions in Cook, Lake counties

Wildfire-related burning restrictions lifted in 14 Minnesota counties

Zebra mussels found in Smith Lake, connected lakes in Crow Wing County

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed zebra mussels in Smith Lake, located near Garrison, as well as Barbour and Holt lakes and Seguchi Creek, which are connected to Smith Lake in Crow Wing County.

Authorities say Greenwood Fire is 67% contained

The U.S. Forest Service reported that the nearly 27,000-acre Greenwood Fire was 67% contained as of Sunday morning.

Greenwood Fire fills the air with smoke and haze near Isabella.

2 horse diseases found in Minnesota

Authorities have detected two different horse diseases in Minnesota — one in Washington County and another in Itasca County.

Weather

Suspected tornadoes cause damage in Missouri, Illinois

A suspected tornado damaged buildings and knocked out power in communities along the state line between Missouri and Illinois, and damage was reported in other parts of the states from severe weather.

Jeff Schroeder, from Anna, Illinois, looks at a the debris strewn around a house in his sister's neighborhood in St. Mary, Mo., after a tornado hit the area on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.

Traffic

Westbound lanes of I-94 near Dayton reopen after injury at construction site, helicopter landing

An aircraft landed on a Minnesota highway on Monday, closing a portion of the roadway.

Local

Absentee ballots due by end of day Tuesday in Hennepin County

Minnesotans who are voting absentee by mail for the 2021 municipal election in Hennepin County will need to mail their ballot by the end of the day Tuesday.

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