Two Minnesota adventurers who canoed 2,000 miles from Ely to Washington, D.C., last year have announced their next expedition - they plan to spend an entire year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Authorities in northeastern Minnesota say a 27-year-old Duluth man has died after becoming ill while hiking a remote trail in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Four men from Michigan were in the Sauk Rapids-St. Cloud area on Thursday attempting to break the all time speed record for paddling the Mississippi River by canoe.