A Carver County woman is hoping her land will be recognized as an important archeological site and that it will be preserved under the permanent protection of the Archeological Conservancy. If her ...

Lake enthusiasts from Carver County are taking their fight against zebra mussels from the shoreline to the courtroom. This week the residents filed suit against the head of the Minnesota Department of ...

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It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

The staff of the Lakeshore Weekly News looked back over the past year and gathered all the headlines and reflected on the stories. We took into consideration local newsworthiness, frequent updates ...

Accusation: Lake Minnetonka water rights purchased in 2020 are being undermined by a coterie of power players in Orono.

rescue crews are sounding the alarm on a dangerous facet of Lake Minnetonka. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Water Patrol says they've made three ice rescues in the past three weeks – twice ...

LAKE MINNETONKA, Minn. — The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is reminding people to be careful when going out onto the ice after a 12-year-old boy fell through Lake Minnetonka while riding a ...

Four decades years later, it remains unclear who owns access to the lake. On the east side of Shoreline Drive, a narrow road that cuts scenically along Lake Minnetonka, sits a sliver of land known ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a warning about pressure ridges on Lake Minnetonka. The ridges look like long lines of built-up ice and can be up to six feet tall. “With the ...

An SUV driver managed to escape without injury after crashing into the water at the point of a pressure ridge on Lake Minnetonka. After a mid-January deep freeze, temperatures have once again warmed ...