Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow ...

Minnesota state officials have announced plans to conduct further analysis of the impacts of sulfate pollution on wild rice in Minnesota lakes and rivers. The announcement comes amid concerns that ...

Lots of people say they want to learn a language, but the task itself can be daunting if you don’t know where to start. I remember approaching college eager to learn Italian. Fortunately, Stanford ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Since its own rocky start and near closure shortly after opening a quarter-century ago, the Great Lakes Aquarium has proven a model of resiliency, drawing ever-larger crowds to its ...

Banaise-Kwe Henry is battling homesickness so she can return to the southern shores of Lake Huron to help raise her nephew ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said it will evaluate recent peer-reviewed scientific studies to validate the impacts of sulfates on wild rice while also working with third-party experts to ...

Using porcupine quills for artistic purposes exists nowhere else on Earth and represents one of the earliest forms of ...

Elisabeth Oliver's "Overtaken" is challenging modern-day social expectations in the world of race car driving, alongside the equal dangers of judging people too quickly. Restraint and desire ...

Commitment to growing a caring community; opportunity for the arts and the humanities to grow their programming; reaching out to all of us to feel welcome to attend, to be embraced despite how 'life ...

A new exhibition at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji titled, “Minwaajimowinan — Good Stories” features generational art ...

As a single department with two majors—one in Spanish, the other in Portuguese and Brazilian studies—our commitment to intercultural studies reaches beyond traditional fields of national literatures, ...

Steam and the sun dogs can be seen on White Bear Lake on Wednesday, Dec. 3. A group of geese huddle together.