A Chilean mining company has filed to renew mineral leases just outside Ely, Minn., so it can build sulfide ore copper mines on the border of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). To ...

While other examples exist in the area, "most of the rest of it is not sitting out there so obvious," said John Green, geology professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth. "It's a ...

ELY, Minn. — What started with a small group of people is having a big impact on protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland imposed a ...

Plans for a controversial resort expansion near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness have halted as the developer surrenders permits amid a lawsuit surrounding shoreline protections. Silver ...

FILE - A core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals on Oct. 4, 2011, containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals ...

ELY, Minn. — An inch of rain overnight Saturday, May 19, helped deal near-final blows to a wildfire that burned up to the city limits last week, bringing relief to this town on the edge of the ...

The U.S. Forest Service this week closed Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area along the Canadian border because of fires. It's the first time in nearly half a century they've had to close the area.

ELY, Minn. (AP) - A warm morning breeze blew across Lynne Hill’s porch overlooking Burntside Lake as fire crews prepared to set a 750-acre fire nearby. Hill felt confident the Forest Service ...

ELY, Minn.—Forest Service officials are preparing to leave it to Old Man Winter to kill the last remnants of a forest fire that blackened nearly 145 square miles of northeastern Minnesota in and ...

A core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals on Oct. 4, 2011, containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC ...