President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration ...

The larger Jenkins Creek fire, located southeast of Hoyt Lakes, was 94% contained as of ... was 95% contained. Even as Minnesota wildfires have been reaching full containment, Minnesotans are ...

U.S. House committee approved removing language on mineral leases in northeastern Minnesota; Senate likely to follow.

Lukas Leaf has been camping in the Boundary ... Waters. More recently, the three counties likely to be most impacted by copper-sulfide mining in northeastern Minnesota — St. Louis, Lake and ...

The move comes within a day of Republican leaders removing language from a budget bill that would do just that.

The Trump administration said it is taking initial steps to reverse a 20-year moratorium on mining on federal land within the ...

The bill has already passed in the House and is now facing pushback in the Senate, where one Minnesota senator is celebrating ...

Tina Smith introduced a bill to protect the Boundary Waters wilderness ... The copper deposits beneath the lakes and forests of Northeastern Minnesota are encased in sulfide ore.

Rather than piloting a boat onto one of Minnesota’s big walleye lakes this spring, he’ll paddle a canoe into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. And instead of a strongbox full of lures ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Whether he’s having lake trout or walleye for shore lunch, Lukas Leaf employs the same recipe. “We fry up a pound of bacon, eat the bacon, and fry the fish in the bacon grease ...