A 20-year-old man drowned in the Temperance River in northeastern Minnesota. According to the Cook County sheriff's office, Pavel Shtrefleng of Eden Prairie was swimming on the Lake Superior side of Minnesota 61, just below a bridge, at about 5:25 p.m. Friday when he got caught in the current.
Regulators are monitoring a small diesel fuel spill that reached Lake Superior. A semi overturned on Highway 61 near Little Marais Tuesday afternoon, spilling about 75 to 80 gallons of diesel out of its fuel tank.
Fish populations in Lake Superior and its surrounding fisheries are faring much better than expected, a year after a major storm dumped up to 10 inches of rain in the Duluth area and sent sediment rushing into Lake Superior.
A teenager who was pulled from Lake Superior off the Duluth shore has died. The St. Louis County sheriff's office says 13-year-old Jeffrey Watson Junior died about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday at a Twin Cities hospital.
Researchers have conducted a large-scale test of a new system to kill invasive species hiding in the ballast water of Great Lakes freighters and expect to get results back next month.