Jason Rantala joined WCCO as a reporter in June 2023. He's a Minnesota native and is thrilled to be telling the stories of those in his hometown. MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds packed Lake Nokomis Park ...

Tweet, Instagram, Tumblr, or Flickr your photos from this event with #monarchfest2012, and we’ll choose some to feature in the Twin Cities Daily Planet! Alternately, upload them to the Facebook page ...

The Duluth Monarch Festival is noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 21 at First United Methodist (copper-top church), 530 Skyline Parkway (intersection of Central Entrance and Skyline). Admission is free; ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is now underway. This trinational data collection effort invites people across Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to simultaneously examine ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Gardeners are noticing a scarcity of colorful monarch butterflies in the Twin Cities this year. At the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum, the wildlife hot line has been peppered with ...

OTSEGO, Minn. — Interested in helping the monarch, getting outdoors and earning a little cash? Minnesota Native Landscapes has a project for you. It is prime harvest time for the native milkweed pod, ...

The official state butterfly since 2000, monarch butterflies are facing a major ecological threat, according to experts. Local, Western populations of monarchs have declined by around 30% compared to ...

It’s been a rough year for the migratory monarch butterfly. The colder spring in the upper Midwest negatively impacted population numbers and the butterfly was classified as endangered by the ...

A study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between 2000 and 2020. Goats are working to get rid of invasive plants like buckthorn ...

We hear a lot about planting flowers and milkweed for monarch butterflies and pollinators these days. The University has come out with research that indicates if we are going to be planting milkweed ...

Forty years ago, amid a Mexican forest swirling with millions of monarch butterflies, an aging scientist and two young explorers solved a decades-old mystery when they found a thumbnail-sized sticker ...