Hundreds of thousands of sandbags are protecting homes and businesses along the shore of Rainy Lake, as residents and Koochiching County officials brace for the lake to rise perhaps another half-foot ...

Rainy Lake and the International Falls and Ranier area will be featured on the “Fishing the Midwest” television show this weekend. The show was taped last July and features host Bob Jensen fishing ...

Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on the lake. "This guy walked up ...

Early Friday morning, the Rainy Lake water level rose higher than the 1950 record of 1112.95 feet, measured at Bear Pass and Fort Frances. After going down briefly, Rainy Lake officially surpassed the ...

Walleye fishing regulations are changing starting Friday, March 1, on Lake of the Woods and the Rainy River, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “These are extremely popular ...

Lake sturgeon populations in both the U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake of the Woods and Rainy River have met short-term recovery goals, and fisheries managers now are setting their sights on the long ...

Dozens of volunteers placed sandbags along the shore of a Fort Frances park on Saturday and Sunday. Fort Frances information officer Patrick Briere says the area did not get as much rain as expected ...

The Koochiching County Board in northern Minnesota voted Tuesday morning to close its four county-owned boat ramps on the Rainy River until further notice in an effort to discourage anglers from ...

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on ...