Around this time every year in Prior Lake, lakeside residents are deputized as lookouts. Their job: to keep an eye on the surface of the lake. “We do use volunteers for this program,” Jamie ...

One of the reasons Minnehaha Creek Watershed District was formed in 1967 was to respond to devastating flooding along Minnehaha Creek and Lake Minnetonka. The first order of business of the new ...

More than 18 million people across a large portion of the nation were under winter storm alerts on Super Bowl Sunday morning.

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

A new map has been released by scientists that shows the US regions that are most vulnerable to climate change disasters.

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, ...

The risk of Mississippi River flooding in the Quad-Cities this spring is below normal, according to an early forecast by the National Weather Service.

There’s a current need for $139M in Flood Hazard Mitigation funding for projects across the state, including $48M in the Red ...

The Minnesota River crested Sunday at 27.76 feet in Jordan and was slowly going down, checking in at 27.4 feet Tuesday afternoon. Last Thursday, the Scott County Road 9/Carver County Road 11 river ...

Motorists should exercise caution during the morning commute as overnight rain has caused flooding and closures at several locations around the Twin Cities metro area, according to the Minnesota ...

The National Weather Service currently has most of the state in an Areal Flood Watch early Saturday to early Monday. The Weather Prediction Center has north central West Virginia in a Slight risk for ...