To those of you who gaze with envy at glossy pictures of English cottage gardens, longing to turn your front lawn into a riot of flowers but wary of their watering needs, I say, "Pine no more." By ...

The Dorena Reservoir has had algae blooms in the past. It flows downstream and into the river where Cottage Grove gets its water. Such blooms produced toxins in the Detroit Lake that reached Salem's ...

COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. (WCCO) --The summer heat couldn't come at a worse time for one Twin Cities suburb. Cottage Grove has been on a temporary watering restriction for a couple weeks now. City leaders ...