The land, purchased for $5.3 million, will be donated to the Minnesota DNR later this year and become Mantrap Lake WMA.

Drawn ever further back, eventually I am fully reclined. Peering through overhanging branches, relieved of leaves, a pale blue Minnesota sky beckons. Small, fluffy clouds of mist slowly move across my ...

Nelson isn’t the only Minnesota beekeeper who’s missing their prized honey makers. He said he spoke with two others who had lost hives in the same way. And similar reports have come in to the ...