Outdoors

To protect shorelines with lake levels extraordinarily high, the Douglas County Board of Commissioners recently approved a recommendation to enact temporary slow, no-wake zones on 19 lakes.

Sunscreen is the most important thing you can do for your skin. If used correctly; it helps prevent cancer, premature aging, and sunburns.  Most of us can improve how we use sunscreen.  Here are five easy tips!

The health departments in Minnesota and Wisconsin put their collective Gopher and Cheese heads together and discovered a surprise.  This isn’t your grandfather’s heat stress.

When you go fishing you only catch the big ones, right?

This time of year a lot of people look forward to the sight and smell of lilacs.

Summer fun is coming to the Alexandria Lakes Area!

The fishing opener is less than a month away.  In some parts of the state, folks are out in their boats.  In others, they’re still firing up the augers.  Either way, play it safe.