Wild rice harvesting opens Thursday on Mallard Lake near Aitkin and on Saturday on Flowage Lake near McGregor. The wild rice harvesting season opened Aug. 15, but some waters remained closed until ...

Two Minnesota men are each facing a handful of misdemeanor charges for illegally harvesting wild rice in Becker County more than a month ago. The men, ages 54 and 36, are each accused of harvesting ...

ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back ...

This is Tomo from Nukumi Net!This time, I'm talking about the climax of rice cultivation: what happens after the ears of rice ...

There is still time to explore our area waters in search of wild rice. The wild rice season continues through Sept. 30 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m daily. The Minnesota DNR lists a number of regulations to ...

LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, MINN. – Canoes and poles are being prepped. Folks sit in their driveways, whittling sticks. It can only mean one thing: Wild rice season has returned to northern Minnesota.