MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a plan to change Lake Calhoun's name and add improvements around Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet.

As a teenager growing up in the wild suburbs of St. Paul, it was a summer rite of passage when one got their driver’s license (at the age of 15!) to take a car full of buddies, and hopefully girls, to ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A second name is being added to signs around Minneapolis' largest lake. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will add placards bearing the Dakota name "Bde Maka Ska" to all ...

You might as well learn it now: ba-DAY ma-KAH ska. In the end, the years-long battle over the name of the former Lake Calhoun came down to administrative minutiae and which of two conflicting ...

Have you ever looked out on Lake Calhoun and seen little tykes bobbing along in little 8-foot sailboats? What a delightful sight! That’s the Lake Calhoun Sailing School. Perhaps you have also seen ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Minne, the lovable Lake Creature, is leaving Lake Calhoun early after a number of aggressive fans showed the iconic sculpture a little too much love, resulting in damage. The Minneapolis ...

ST. PAUL — The largest lake in Minneapolis will retain the name given to it in 2018, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, May 13. Its official name will continue to be Lake Bde Maka Ska, the ...

Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled 5-2 this week that a lake named after the pro-slavery former Vice President John C. Calhoun can revert to its original Dakota title, Bde Maka Ska, according to local ...

A: A petition with at least 15 signatures was given to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The board held several public hearings before it approved renaming Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska, the ...

WILLMAR — The Kandiyohi County Board will hear Tuesday from members of the Calhoun Lake Area Association regarding a possible name change for the lake. According to the materials posted with the March ...