One of the unhealthiest lakes in Minnesota is 5½ miles long and stretches into three pools that, when viewed from above, look like a wasp about to sting. It’s a few miles north of the Iowa border in ...

The fact that Ross Petersen is a fishing guide and also a former mayor of Ely doesn’t make him unique. Two other recent mayors of that small town on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...