DETRIOT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — The cold is becoming no more. With many fishing enthusiasts removing their ice houses as the season comes to a close. “Kind of all over all the area lakes. Little Detroit, Big Detroit here in town had a ton of fish houses on a lot of them started by coming off the lake with the…
WALKER, Minn. (KVRR) – A contracted Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fire suppression aircraft crashed into a lake Tuesday in rural Remer, Minnesota. Cass County Sheriff Bryan Welk says the single-engine plane crashed into the southern end of Inguadona Lake, in Trelipe Township. Several witnesses were able to rescue the pilot, a 56-year-old man from Texas. He was treated for…
LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. (KVRR) — About 50 people are rescued from Lake of the Woods on New Years Day. The sheriff’s office says they got a report of about 20 to 25 people stranded on the northside of a pressure ridge that cracked open around 3 p.m. Long Point Resort used a boat to bring people to the…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) – This winter has been a warm one across the region, which means the ice is pretty thin on the lakes and rivers. Most lakes across the region are frozen over, but due to warm temps and the rain around Christmas, the ice isn’t as thick as it has in the past. “It’s been a very…
NISSWA, Minn. (KVRR) — A woman gets attacked by a bear near Nisswa, Minnesota. It happened early Friday morning. The Minnesota DNR says the 65-year-old Minneapolis woman who was staying a cabin near Gull Lake, was checking on her dog outside after midnight. She says that’s when a bear swiped at her and hit her several places. She was taken…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – Get your rods and reels and life jackets out as Minnesota’s Fishing Opener starts Saturday and people across the state are excited to get back on the water for another season of catching fish. It’s a unique Minnesota tradition and experts were initially worried about ice on many lakes in the state after the cold, wet and…
MINNEAPOLIS — (KVRR/KFGO) — Mother’s Day and the Minnesota fishing opener typically go hand in hand but not this year. The fishing opener is taking place on Saturday, May 14. That is because of a state statue which required the opener to happen precisely two weeks before the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. But some moms still got a chance…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Aaron Holte sent us these pictures after spotting a bunch of goldfish in a culvert on the Minnesota State Community and Technical College campus in Moorhead. It’s along 28th Avenue South from 8th to 20th streets. By the time our crew arrived, we only spotted one fish. The Minnesota DNR says 275 goldfish considered an invasive…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man suffers non-life threatening injuries in a hunting accident this morning in Polk County. According to the sheriff’s office, it was after 10 a.m. when an officer responded to the area of Highway 2 and 380th Avenue SW for a report of a hunter with a gunshot wound. First responders arrived on scene and…
Willow River/Honor the EarthMINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Enbridge has failed to meet a deadline set by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for cleaning up a site where an aquifer ruptured during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline. The DNR had given the company until Friday to repair the damage to the artesian aquifer near Clearbrook. Regulators will require compensation…
