The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has approved a plan for exploratory mineral drilling just outside the Boundary ...

A group of nine Minnesota businesses is suing the Trump administration, asserting irreparable harm from a U.S. Department of Interior decision to reinstate two long-expired mineral leases near the ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) quota permit reservations will be available beginning at 9 a.m. CDT on ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from future mining, dealing a potentially fatal blow ...

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. ELY, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Forest ...

The Minnesota State Capitol rotunda was full for a rally to prevent mining in the Boundary Waters on Thursday May 8th. The rally was organized by multiple organizations including Sportsmen for the ...

The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from future mining, dealing a potentially fatal blow to a copper-nickel ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. --The Minnesota Supreme Court has just issued another ruling that could block mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area. The court suspended a wastewater permit for the ...

Under its approved plan, Franconia Minerals, a subsidiary of Twin Metals Minnesota, is allowed to drill exploratory boreholes ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Saturday closed the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota as the largest active wildfire in the state threatens the 1-million-acre property ...