The Beltrami County SWCD will host its annual Mighty Mississippi Clean Up Day event between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, with willing volunteers meeting at Paul Bunyan Park.
From the Danube to the Mississippi, John Arenz and his family have participated in canoe trips and competitive races all over the world in their many years as paddlers.
In just the last few months, there have been 3 reported incidents in the St. Cloud area of people getting separated from their boats or kayaks on the Mississippi. One of those incidents was fatal.
The missing kayaker is described as a white male, 39 years of age, and is 5-feet,10-inches tall and approximately 200 pounds, according to a Stearns County Sheriff's Office news release.
Growing up in coastal California, the Mississippi wasn鈥檛 much more to me than a long, squiggly line on a map, an informal demarcation of the eastern and western components of the United States.
Red Wing Grain, which typically loads 400-600 barges in a year and handles about 25 million to 30 million bushels annually through its facility, is down 10% to 20% this fall, said Jim Larson, general manager
Items found in a park along the Mississippi River in Stearns County led to a three-day search for missing 6-year-old Elle Ragin, of Northfield. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office is asking residents along the Mississippi River to keep an eye and report any items that may be related to the search.
On his 87th birthday, Dale Sanders started paddling to take on the entire length of the Mississippi River in hopes to break the world record as the oldest person to make the 2,340 mile trek, again.
A family of boaters discovered the baby on Sept. 5, 2011. While they believed they were picking trash from the water, they discovered a baby wrapped inside a tote bag.
