Only a few pilots noticed at first until Google Earth launched in 2001 and a satellite photo of the state-shaped forest went ...

Years before Google Earth, DNR forester Bill Lockner used hand tools and calculated all the angles and distances to etch ...

Retired Department of Natural Resources employee Bill Lockner created a state-shaped forest in northern Minnesota nearly 40 years ago. This photo from 1990 shows the shape shortly after trees were ...

DNR aerially surveyed 17.5 million acres of Minnesota for damage to forests in 2024. Since the early 1950s, aerial surveys ...

An apartment complex in Forest Lake has traded hands between two Twin Cities metro-based companies for $24.5 million, ...

In 2024, the Minnesota Timberwolves had an electrifying run into the NBA's Western Conference finals. While the team isn't on ...