Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. CATHY WURZER: If you've visited Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior about 50 years ago, the story you heard ...

Grand Portage (Gichi Onigamiing) is both a seasonal migration route and the traditional site of an Ojibwe summer village on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. In the 1700s, after voyageurs began ...

GRAND PORTAGE — The gate was locked. Securely locked. It was after hours on an October afternoon, and there was no way around the wooden barricade surrounding Grand Portage National Monument, no way ...

Grand Portage National Monument stands where the North West Company operated a trading post It incorporates the histories of both the fur traders and the Ojibwe people There is no admission fee for ...

Bob Walker was busy at the helm of his excavator, pulling rock and rubble out of old dock cribs in Lake Superior at Grand Portage National Monument. Something caught Walker's eye as he washed the ...

GRAND PORTAGE — In September, the entire tribal council for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa gathered on a dock jutting into the lake to welcome a rare, fragile and culturally ...

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A port of entry along our northern border with Canada is heading toward some major upgrades. The Grand Portage land port of entry is located at the very tip of the arrowhead and is entirely on the ...

GRAND PORTAGE (WCCO)-- Minnesota has two equally beautiful, but distinctly different National Monuments, located at complete opposite ends of the state. This week, I'll look at one, and then when I ...

Norman Deschampe, longtime chairman of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, died Saturday, according to band officials. He was 65. Deschampe, a Grand Portage native, was the council's ...

Minnesota state parks are well known and loved. But Wednesday, one was described as “otherworldly.” The viewing platforms for the High Falls at Grand Portage State Park are coated in ice. The ...

Though fewer Canadians are choosing to travel to the U.S. while Donald Trump is that country’s president, a complete overhaul of Minnesota’s Grand Portage border facility on Highway 61 aims to ...