Outdoors

ST. PAUL - The Builders Association of the Twin Cities is taking the state to court over the new fire sprinkler law. The law requires a sprinkler system for all new homes more than 4,500 square feet. Clay Dietrich of the Homebuilders Association of Fargo/Moorhead has worked...

OWEN - One person was killed and two others were injured when a single-engine plane crashed today near Owen in central Wisconsin. The fatal victim was a passenger in the four-seat Cessna 182. The pilot and another passenger had non-life-threatening injuries. The crash happened...

ORR, Minn. -- A Cannon Falls man is dead after a snowmobile crash last night near Orr in northeastern Minnesota. The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office says 51-year-old Richard Schaefer's sled left the Arrowhead Trail and ended up in a wooded area. Schaefer was located a short...

For the second time in a year, evidence of a deadly fungal disease has been found in Wisconsin bats. The DNR said it found genetic markers for white nose syndrome in a pair of bats at a privately-owned cave in Dane County. The affected bats are an eastern species that's different...

WELCH, Minn. - A Prairie Island Police officer escaped injury Sunday night when he was involved in a crash during a traffic stop. Minnesota State Patrol says the officer had pulled over a driver on County Road 18 near Red Wing when a car driven by 84-year-old Jeanne Schadt hit...

MILWAUKEE - A 15-year-old boy who was shot last night in the parking lot of Wisconsin Lutheran High School was released from the hospital today. Milwaukee Police are still looking for the man who fired the shot. It happened during a basketball game between Wisconsin Lutheran and...

TALKEENTA, Alak. -- Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre has become the first person to reach the summit of Alaska's Mount McKinley alone in the month of January. The 53-year-old from Grand Marais, Minnesota sent out a GPS spot signal from the 20,237-foot Denali summit last night...

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has rejected an agreement which called for the Forest County Potawatomi to be reimbursed by the state for any losses at its Milwaukee casino when another casino is opened less than 50 miles away. Governor Scott Walker still has until next month...

TOFTE, Minn. - Two men are dead after being swept away by large waves Tuesday along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Tofte. Cook County deputies were called to Bluefin Bay resort when a 40-year-old man went into the water to cool off after a hot tub and was in distress....