Conservation Corps of Minnesota, lake associations, landowners and the Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) partnered together recently to install a shoreline buffer on West Fox lake, and a shoreline buffer on Cross Lake.

A DNR firearms safety class will be offered from 5:30-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, Sept. 13-17, at the Nisswa Fire Hall (Monday) and the Nisswa Center Community Center (Tuesday-Friday).

The paving of the Paul Bunyan State Trail between Bemidji and Walker in June has finally linked the communities of Bemidji and Brainerd/Baxter.

As it approaches its 30th year of existence, the Mississippi Headwaters Board (MHB) is on the move.

Longtime Breezy Point residents Bruce and Dorothy Yund, who both died in the past year, were honored posthumously at the Breezy Point Community Fest on Saturday, Aug. 29. A red splendor apple tree was planted in

The Lakes Country Triathlon race on Saturday, Aug. 28, in Baxter included a 1/2-mile swim in Whipple Lake, 17-mile bike ride and 3.9 mile run.

David and Aline Hanson, who live near the Pine River golf course, were surprised to find buttercup squash growing in the flowering crab tree in their backyard.

Austin Simon, 11, of Pine River, was the grand champion at the Hackensack Kids' Fishing Contest.

"It Takes a Village" to run Turtle Races and in tiny Longville, that means just about everyone.

After five years of work and multiple conservation projects involving the Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation (LLAWF), the Child, Girl, Woman Lake Property Owners Association (CGWLPOA), dedicated individuals, and willing landowners, the Minnesota DNR now owns 5,000 feet, almost a mile, of shoreline in Lantern Bay of Woman Lake.