The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that it has issued a $730,369 fine to a lake weed removal company after one of its employees drowned in May. The department said the employee ...

A rake is the first and arguably most important item in an aquatic weed removal tool collection. Designed to remove loose patches of floating, rooted weeds (coontail, curly-leafed pondweed, etc.), a ...

ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. — On the day one family buried their child, there were painful memories for another family. Both their children drowned at their summer jobs. "It speaks more to this not being a ...

Anthony Bettin is a web producer at CBS Minnesota. He primarily covers breaking news and sports, with a focus on the Minnesota Vikings. Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a ...

Fargoan Craig Colman suspects Minnesota lake property owners have better things to do than rake weeds out of their swimming areas. So, he invented a device that does the weed removal for them. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Columbia Heights company has been fined more than $730,000 for violating commercial diving standards after a Bethel University ...

Northampton County is cutting its contribution to hydrilla control. Other counties could follow suit, putting more of the burden on homeowners. Homeowners on Lake Gaston can expect to pay more this ...

Also known as reeds or pencil reeds, bulrushes are considered a valuable part of a lake’s ecosystem. They grow in marshes and along shorelines of lakes and ponds up to eight feet deep and can rise ...

Living better through chemistry, a slogan popularized by DuPont Corp. nearly a century ago, has its limits. Just ask the residents of Chelmsford who live along Freeman Lake. They and the town of ...