The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that it has issued a $730,369 fine to a lake weed removal company after one of its employees drowned in May. The department said the employee ...

ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. — On the day one family buried their child, there were painful memories for another family. Both their children drowned at their summer jobs. "It speaks more to this not being a ...

A rake is the first and arguably most important item in an aquatic weed removal tool collection. Designed to remove loose patches of floating, rooted weeds (coontail, curly-leafed pondweed, etc.), a ...

A Columbia Heights company has been fined more than $730,000 for violating commercial diving standards after a Bethel University student drowned while removing lake weeds in May. Your Lake Aquatic ...

Fargoan Craig Colman suspects Minnesota lake property owners have better things to do than rake weeds out of their swimming areas. So, he invented a device that does the weed removal for them. He ...

Caroline Cummings is an Emmy-winning reporter with a passion for covering politics, public policy and government. She is thrilled to join the WCCO team. Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined ...

Northampton County is cutting its contribution to hydrilla control. Other counties could follow suit, putting more of the burden on homeowners. Homeowners on Lake Gaston can expect to pay more this ...

Also known as reeds or pencil reeds, bulrushes are considered a valuable part of a lake’s ecosystem. They grow in marshes and along shorelines of lakes and ponds up to eight feet deep and can rise ...

MIDDLEBURY, Conn. (WFSB) - A growing number of Middlebury residents are voicing their concern about weed removal in Lake Quassapaug. “There are the invasive weeds, and the one that we have here is ...

Living better through chemistry, a slogan popularized by DuPont Corp. nearly a century ago, has its limits. Just ask the residents of Chelmsford who live along Freeman Lake. They and the town of ...