A search and rescue effort is ongoing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area to find a man who went missing earlier this month.

For decades, lawmakers, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Forest Service bargained over potential land swaps for the 80,000 acres. Starting in the 2010s, they tried pursuing ...

The area is separate and just south of where Twin Metals has proposed building its underground copper-nickel mine.

From the editorial: "There’s no reason to believe the Boundary Waters are under any sort of imminent threat — other than from ...

Trump administration looks to bring back mining near Boundary Waters originally appeared on Bring Me The News. Trump’s top cabinet members say they are working to allow mining again in parts of ...

The exploration by a subsidiary of Twin Metals Minnesota will take place on existing state and private mineral holdings. Minnesota regulators will allow a mining company to conduct exploratory ...

But environmental groups celebrated the Interior Department’s move to ban mining in the pristine area of northern Minnesota, calling the region a “national treasure” that must be protected. The ...

When Republican Congressman Pete Stauber of Duluth announced legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters earlier this month, he forgot to mention one thing: what the rest of us want. Stauber ...

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, ...

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