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A fresh new year has arrived and with it very little in the way of cheery outlooks for topics we hear about when we turn on the computer, radio or TV. During our annual Timberjay Christmas break, I …

In another largely snowless first few weeks of winter, the search for good ice is underway. It’s always a race against time, as we know that the lake skating season will be over with our first …

As emergency communication technology improves, clearly saving lives, some worry that it's also encouraging risky behavior by unprepared people.

Fire ants, Elvis Presley Lake, flash flood rescue: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Alabama is turning to social media to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Department of Public Health announced a TikTok contest to encourage young people to get vaccinated before the start of the school year. The contest is for people ages 13 to 29. To participate, contestants should submit a TikTok video showing...

Marshall Helmberger ECHO TRAIL— Clearing of trees and brush along this iconic roadway within the Superior National Forest is on a temporary hold while St. Louis County officials take stock of work done to date. Some border country residents have raised alarm over the impact to the scenic qualities of the road, which is a primary access route to a large swath of the western end of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. “We have no issue with brush clearing,” said Paul Schurke, of Ely,...

ELY- When firefighters battled a wildfire that began May 17 near Bezhik Lake that burned 782 acres of forest, they were joined the next day by a partner that helped them communicate and coordinate …

ELY, MN (KDAL) - First responders in northern Minnesota are getting a boost in wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet expansion in the region ...

ELY - A fire in the Boundary Waters Area Canoe Wilderness, which initially sent smoke plumes into the skies, calmed to a smoldering blaze drifting with the wind on an overcast Thursday. “The intensity of the fire has been knocked down,” Superior National Forest spokesperson Tim Engrav told the Mesabi Tribune in a phone interview. “It’s not growing.” The blaze, named the Bezhik Fire, started on Monday. It burned beneath red and white pines across 10 acres in the La Croix...

Boundary Waters blaze could be sign of busy wildfire season in northeast Minnesota The last big fire to sweep through the Boundary Waters was the Pagami Creek Fire, which burned about 100,000 acres 10 years ago this September. There hasnt been another large-scale fire since. Written By: Dan Kraker / MPR News | 6:23 am, May 21, 2021 × Smoke billowed from the Bezhik Lake fire in the BWCAW Tuesday afternoon. Light rain, higher humidity levels and cooler temperatures Wednesda...