The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many suppliers of spruce tops from Canada from selling across the border. So spruce thieves in northern Minnesota have stepped in to take advantage of that gap.

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Shane Zavodnik recently hopped through a snowy bog a few miles outside Eveleth, Minnesotta, struggling to keep his boots dry. Then, he ...

More than any other league in professional sports, the NFL could be aptly characterized as a meritocracy. It explains why hungry, relentless undrafted free agents such as Doug Baldwin and Chris ...

A St. Louis County man accused of illegally harvesting the tops of evergreens to sell for holiday decorations faces a felony theft charge for the first time because of the enormity of the violation ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - Decorating for the holidays is an exciting and significant endeavor. One way to make it easier is to decorate with spruce tops, small evergreens that are versatile enough to ...

A 70-year-old Grand Rapids man admits to stealing thousands of black spruce tree tops from the Chippewa National Forest. Joseph Edminster entered a guilty plea Friday to one count of theft of ...

Dear Santa Answer Man: This may be a pretty basic question for Minnesota natives, but in all the states I have lived in, I had never heard of “spruce tops.” Now I just imagine some poor forest with ...