Winona County landowners Claire Bender and Sue Ramthun have been named the Minnesota Southeast Area 7 Outstanding ...

Two Winona County trout streams may benefit from proceeds of a new state sales tax to fund environmental protection and the arts, under a plan approved by a Minnesota House committee this week.

WEAVER, Minn. — Even in retirement from a hydrology career, Paul Wotzka keeps tabs on soil layers in southeastern Minnesota’s bluff country. “We have a groundwater sensitive parameter down here,” ...

The presence of brook trout says a lot about the condition of a lake, river, or stream. Brook trout are sensitive fish that can only spawn, grow, and survive in clean, cold water. If a body of water ...