Harley Alcala says he found the mother lode of Lake Superior agates right in Lake Superior. Alcala was kayaking near his home in Hovland on the North Shore when he spotted the basketball-size rock ...

MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — On a cold, blustery day in April, Bel and I headed to the North Shore to meet up with a rock star named Taylor, or as he’s known on social media, “Agate Dad.” Taylor is famous in ...

The beaches at Grand Marais are excellent hunting grounds for the ancient Lake Superior agate, a semi-precious stone made up of concentric circles of microcrystaline quartz reddened by iron. Here’s ...

Half the adventure of our annual getaway to Grand Marais, Minnesota, is the journey. My mom, sister and I go every spring for a long, peaceful weekend. We follow Highway 61 from Duluth up the north ...

Built by a Swedish immigrant fisherman who found he could make more money luring tourists than lake trout, Lutsen Resort has long been an iconic Minnesota property known to every traveler on Hwy. 61 ...

DULUTH — When I shared the news last year that I was relocating from Minneapolis to Duluth, many of my Twin Cities friends expressed jealousy. I was moving to the North Shore! At least, that was how ...

One of the most-visited areas on the Superior Hiking Trail on Minnesota’s North Shore will reopen Friday. Work that began in mid-May to rehabilitate the Bean and Bear Lakes Loop Trail is complete, ...

The Crosby Fire between Duluth and Lutsen continues to burn in a remote ridge area of George H. Crosby Manitou State Park. Visitors are advised to use caution, but George H. Crosby Manitou State Park ...