About 30 snowmobilers and several dozen spectators gathered for an informal day of water skipping Saturday on the Rice Lake reservoir north of Duluth. While water skipping at this time of year usually ...

HELENA — Gary Hoyt couldn't swim and was deathly afraid of water. Yet authorities say friends persuaded him to climb aboard a snowmobile, open the throttle and drive it across an open reservoir on a ...

HELENA — The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, saying the practice of skimming snowmo biles over open water poses a danger to riders and other water users, adopted emergency restrictions on ...

The practice involves gunning a snowmobile down a bank or boat ramp into the water at full speed. HELENA — The Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants a statewide ban on “water skipping” — the ...