(TNS) — Farmers, watershed managers and others with an interest now have easy access to precise information on land elevations and similar data in the Minnesota portion of the Red River Basin with the ...

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.

School officials can update the maps in real time. Kim said some use the software for emergency preparedness during sporting ...

Google Maps and other navigation apps may be the go-to for many people trying to find their way, but the traditional state highway road map still has staying power. “They are popular,” said Minnesota ...

Three wildfires in northern Minnesota’s Arrowhead region have grown from a few hundred acres to several thousand, with new evacuations and reports of destroyed buildings increasing by the day. Red ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota officials released maps showing landowners what water needs plant buffers around it, and how deep the buffers must be. The long-awaited release came Tuesday morning. State law ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota farmers may not need to install as many mandated buffer strips as originally thought, but it still will cost millions of dollars to comply with a new state law. After announcing ...

MINNEAPOLIS — As May marches on, there's more good news for those monitoring Minnesota's ongoing drought conditions. Everyone across northern Minnesota, where it's been the driest, saw a one-category ...