Charges accuse them of damaging an estimated 30 acres of wild rice beds on Height of Land Lake, just south of the White Earth ...

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.

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested. Wild rice ...

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

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

ODANAH, Wisc. - I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad ...

It has been lean harvest this season for wild rice in Wisconsin, but there are still some areas in one part of the state for some last chance ricing this weekend. Ricing season got underway in late ...

In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their experts ...

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 ...

In northern Saskatchewan, rapidly spreading rice worms are destroying the wild rice harvest. The pests are threatening a crop harvested by Indigenous communities for generations. GM is moving ...