The governor said technology to prevent pollution from copper-nickel mining isn’t ready at this point in time.

U.S. Forest Service officials have informed Boundary Waters permit holders and cooperating businesses that they won’t be ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture issues clarification after emergency order seeking to expand logging in national forests.

"It's important to put a marker out there and give us all something to work towards." Lawmaker proposes bold measure to block ...

This legislation builds on years of advocacy by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, also a Minnesota Democrat, who has championed the ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

The legislation would make permanent a 20-year ban on that type of mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest in the ...

In recent years, the ranger stations have issued fewer permits than the dozens of certified outfitters in the northern part ...

A loon flaps its wings on Eddy Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The surge to book a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) permit was intense again this year, even briefly bogging down the government’s reservation system after bookings went live Jan. 29.

Spring may be trying to make its move across northern Minnesota, but inland lakes in the Superior National Forest and ...

and close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Much of the mining would take place on the left side of this image in the forested land. On the campaign trail last year, at a stop in St ...