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.

Over this past summer, I met with virtually every homeowner who lives directly along Lake Calhoun, plus another couple hundred neighbors who live within a few blocks. Why? To listen to what they had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- If you believe it's all in the name you should listen up. "Well the lake is named after Vice President John C. Calhoun," said Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Brad Bourn. Want to ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ended the yearslong legal dispute over what to call the biggest lake in Minneapolis with these words: "Under Minnesota law, the body of water that was Lake Calhoun is now ...