The U.S. Forest Service is asking as many as 1,400 employees who left the agency in recent months to help fight wildfires this summer.

With embers from Minnesota’s wildfires still smoldering and Canadian smoke darkening our skies, it’s worth remembering that fires burn more than trees—they consume peatlands, a living foundation beneath our forests that has protected us for centuries.

Members of Congress went into this weekend with their nerves already severely frayed. The shooting of two lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday has sent those tensions over the edge. Why it matters: In discussions with Axios on Saturday,

While major wildfires in the northeastern part of the state are largely contained, Monday's weather is conducive to fire development. A chance of rain Tuesday may moderate fire activity.

According to the Duluth Fire Department, crews responded to the 4000 block of Main Street just before 3:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 12.

A southern Minnesota community laid to rest a firefighter whose death is being considered a line of duty death — Andrew Karels died by suicide in the weeks following a traumatic farm accident call that involved the Amboy fire chief’s father.

Fire crews responded to a blaze that broke out Thursday at a biomass power plant in Duluth. The Duluth Fire Department says it was called at around 2:50 p.m. to the Minnesota Power Hibbard Renewable Energy Center (HREC), where wood had caught fire in the plant's 20,000 sq. ft. storage unit.

The National Incident Management Organization announced the Horse River fire was 100% contained as of Sunday. The fire, which spread to 13 acres, had to be fought by firefighters who rappelled from helicopters into the remote area.