John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. A few years ago, ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- The beloved loon is the focus of a new conservation program. The Minnesota Loon Restoration Project is targeting an eight-county area, which includes Hubbard, Becker, Beltrami, ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — Loon lovers from around the world are cheering for “Gilligan,” a young loon who is still swimming in open water on the Crow Wing chain of lakes, near Nevis, Minnesota, weeks after ...

Debbie Center normally paints loons but for the past few weeks she's been more focused on rescuing the subject of her artwork in a saga followed by thousands of lovers of Minnesota's state bird.

DULUTH — A citizen science effort that began 30 years ago and has accumulated reams of data on Minnesota's loon population still needs more volunteers to check for loons on northern lakes this summer.

PALO — For 87 years, people have gathered at the Loon Lake Community Center to celebrate the beginning of Lent and sled down a big hill together. It's all part of the annual Laskiainen, a Finnish ...

It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

GRAND RAPIDS — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding anglers to retrieve as much of their broken-off fishing line as possible after an incident with a loon. Biologists for the DNR ...