A floatplane pilot drowned after crashing into Lake Mille Lacs, the county sheriff confirmed Saturday. Mille Lacs County Sheriff Kyle Burton said in a Facebook video posted around 3 a.m. that the ...

Mille Lacs Island Resort, an 87-acre vacation community with a 140-year history on Mille Lacs Lake, has sold to an Arizona ...

ST. PAUL -- Walleye fishing on Lake Mille Lacs will close today, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said. In an announcement on its website Sunday, the DNR said it is closing the season ...

Autumn is a unique time for fishing as many anglers turn to hunting, leaving boat ramps less crowded as fish feed more ...

ST. PAUL -- Two weeks ahead of the Minnesota fishing opener, a group of anglers and current and former resort owners filed suit Thursday to overturn an extended night-fishing ban on Lake Mille Lacs ...

MILLE LACS, Minn. — Mille Lacs Lake is known for many things. As Minnesota’s second-largest lake, Mille Lacs is a premier destination for fishing enthusiasts, averaging about 2.5 million angler hours ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. The ...

ONAMIA — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites anyone interested in fisheries management of Mille Lacs Lake to an informational meeting in advance of the fishing opener. At the meeting ...

The first day Robert Hawkins fished on Mille Lacs Lake, the only fish he caught was a 57-inch muskie, landed on a fly rod - a possible world record. Hawkins, a Minnesota transplant who came from ...

GARRISON, Minn. — You hear it all the time about Mille Lacs: if you go there in November before the water turns to ice, the fish gods reward you with big walleyes. Muskies, too. We put those ...

MILLE LACS LAKE, Minn. -- A muskie caught on Mille Lacs Lake the day before Thanksgiving could have been a world record -- although it’ll never be official. Caught by Dominic Hoyos of Stillwater, Minn ...

BRAINERD — The walleye limit on Mille Lacs Lake will increase from two to three beginning Saturday, Aug. 23, and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 30, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...