SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Lake sturgeon have returned to one of the only places they were once abundant in South Dakota, Big Stone Lake. It’s thanks to a nearly 10 year project between both the ...

ORTONVILLE — The Big Stone County Sheriff’s Office reported the death of a man whose pickup fell through the ice on Big Stone Lake near Lagoona Beach around 9:16 a.m. Sunday. He has been identified as ...

For the first time in nearly 80 years, lake sturgeon — ancient fish that can grow up to a tall man’s length — are once more flowing through the waters of Big Stone Lake, a 26-mile-wide border lake ...

Mar. 8---- It seemed like a bold prediction 10 years ago, but time is proving it true. When lake sturgeon were restocked in Big Stone Lake in 2014, it was estimated that in five years' time, some of ...

Nov. 25—ORTONVILLE — A back-to-the future story is unfolding in a big way on Big Stone Lake and in the Upper Minnesota River watershed, where an eight-year-long process to restore lake sturgeon to ...

ORTONVILLE — The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Big Stone Lake, a long, narrow lake that extends 26 miles through Big Stone County in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Zebra mussels are in another South Dakota waterway. The South Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) said in a news release Big Stone Lake is now considered infested for zebra mussels.

ORTONVILLE, Minn. | Big Stone Lake is a 26-mile long fish factory. Long known for its excellent walleye fishing, and in the past few years an exploding perch population, few anglers are aware of the ...

The ‘meteoric’ growth of the lake sturgeon, which disappeared from the western Minnesota lake after World War II, has South Dakota, Minnesota researchers intrigued. Lake sturgeon sightings on Big ...