lake of the woods

Court documents were scheduled to be in the hands of Lake of the Woods County court officials sometime today in connection with an investigation into guided fishing operations on Lake of the Woods. According to Col. Ken Soring, enforcement chief for the Minnesota Department of...

Charges are pending against an unknown number of people for illegally taking, transporting and/or possessing too many walleyes on Lake of the Woods, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported this week. In a statement issued by Chris Niskanen, DNR communications director...

Ontario authorities have recovered the bodies of a Warroad, Minn., man and his teen-aged son who went through the ice Saturday afternoon on Lake of the Woods near Cyclone Island. According to Ontario Provincial Police, divers recovered the bodies of Wayne Windahl, 47, and his son,...

LAKE OF THE WOODS -  Two snowmobilers who went through the ice on Lake of the Woods Saturday afternoon have been identified as a father and son from Warroad. Divers continued to search today for Wayne Windahl, 47, and Jeremy Windahl, 16, according to a news release from the Ontario...

Divers have recovered the body of a truck driver who went through the ice on Lake of the Woods near Minnesota's Northwest Angle. The Ontario Provincial Police identified the trucker as 68-year-old Allen Elleson of Angle Inlet, Minn. Authorities say Elleson was hauling cement in...

Ontario Provincial Police said details of two snowmobilers missing on Lake of the Woods would not be released until Monday morning. The incident has been turned over to the OPP Kenora detachment. The two reportedly hit an open water area at about 2 p.m. Saturday in an area of the...

Two snowmobilers are missing on Lake of the Woods after apparently traveling into an open-water area, according to the Ontario Provincial Police, or OPP. Sgt. Darryl Wright said the incident was reported about 2 p.m. Saturday.

A trucker from northern Minnesota is missing after his vehicle broke through the ice this morning on Lake of the Woods, according to the Ontario Provincial Police, or OPP, Communications Unit. Sgt. Ted Becker said the OPP received a call at 9:12 a.m. after a person waiting for a...

GRAND FORKS - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a "split-state status" for Minnesota in its fight against bovine tuberculosis, improving conditions for a great part of the state's cattle industry, state officials announced Thursday. "This has been a long-awaited point...