Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

Tucked away at the end of a well-trodden trail cloaked in buckthorn and rife with mud holes, there is a hidden beach. The beach, on the northeast side of Cedar Lake in Minneapolis, is unregulated and ...

CEDAR LAKE, Wis. — Authorities found a man after went missing on a western Wisconsin lake Monday evening. A homeowner on Cedar Lake called 911 just after 5:30 p.m. to report a boat going in circles ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Within the next few months, 30 new wells will pump millions of gallons of water from a sectioned-off portion of Cedar Lake into the Cedar River each day. The “dewatering” project will ...

With towering walls of glass, heated concrete floors and high ceilings, Minnesota's iconic FlatPak House is back on the market. Designed by Charlie Lazor, the house near Cedar Lake in Minneapolis was ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Dale Todd called it. Decades ago, the now-Cedar Rapids City Council member summed up a vision to turn Cedar Lake — an urban lake long seen as an eyesore and plagued by environmental ...