The Legislature named the common loon as Minnesota’s state bird in 1961 in large part because it’s so distinctive, with its white-spangled black plumage, long black bill and those Morocco red ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says there is a "unified front" in the state's fight against bird flu, which was recently detected in a Stearns County dairy herd. Walz is seeking $4 million from the state ...

Then a bald eagle, and then a red-tailed hawk ... forced the culling of about 150 million domestic birds, including more than ...

Hundreds of samples of raw milk in Minnesota have been tested for bird flu as the state ramps up its effort to slow the spread of the virus. The national effort started in January; Minnesota’s ...