An environmental committee hearing at the Minnesota State Capitol veered into religion and protecting the unborn Thursday as ...

The court sided with the MPCA, which rejected U.S. Steel's request to allow sulfate levels nearly eight times higher than the ...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to ...

Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. “Wild rice is culturally significant to Aniishinabe people here in Minnesota. It’s our connection to the ...

though it is most abundant in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota! Wild rice is the edible, long grain portion of the grass. It is typically dark ...

That guidance brought the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe here to Minnesota. A view of Manoomin or wild rice after it has been harvested and processed.

The state of Minnesota owns the mineral rights of much of this ... which flows into Bad River and then Lake Superior. The wild rice and wetlands ecosystem in the lower reaches of the Bad River near ...

One of the bills most talked about is SF 1247 the Protection of Wild Rice Act ... which advocates says is contaminating lakes and working with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

To aid in restoration across the state, the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative, comprising tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes ...