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, ...

Twin Metals wants to build an underground copper-nickel mine, processing facility and tailings storage facility several miles ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness spanning northeast Minnesota and southern Ontario has been a haven for generations of outdoorsmen. This includes Jacob Skorloken, who caught one of the ...

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

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

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...

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 ...

The future of the Boundary Waters continues to be a hot topic of debate among Minnesota legislators, as a new bill that would permanently safeguard the region was introduced this week. On Wednesday, ...

DULUTH — Minnesota officials have proposed selling approximately 80,000 acres of school trust land scattered throughout the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the federal government, which ...

The fact that Ross Petersen is a fishing guide and also a former mayor of Ely doesn’t make him unique. Two other recent ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. — The Minnesota National Guard is joining the efforts to find two missing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Gov. Tim Walz announced ...