SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing facility ...

Minnesota regulators identified another 20 bodies of water used for wild rice production that exceeded the state’s wild rice sulfate water quality standard, placing the 13 lakes and seven streams on ...

The Leech Lake and White Earth bands of Chippewa have declared their reservations' wild-rice waters off limits to hunters during the state's experimental five-day teal-hunting season, which begins ...

Our lakes are reflecting the exceptionally dry and hot summer we’ve had. Boat launches have struggled with low water levels, swimmers have enjoyed warmer waters earlier in the season, and sensitive ...

(WLUK) -- On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Wisconsin established Wild Rice Week to protect cultural resources. Since 2019, the second Monday in October has been designated as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in ...

This article is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Grist, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the Guardian and Inside ...

RED WING, Minn. -- This year's late spring put many Minnesota crops behind schedule. Wild rice is no exception. As of early July, the rice crop -- which grows mainly in lakes, marshes and streams in ...

Wild rice harvesting opens Thursday on Mallard Lake near Aitkin and on Saturday on Flowage Lake near McGregor. The wild rice harvesting season opened Aug. 15, but some waters remained closed until ...

Wild rice harvest was down in 2024, but spirits will be high in 2025 when a new processing facility is expected to be open in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Isaiah RedDay fills 1-pound bags of Leech Lake Wild ...