One of the things I love most about my home state is that northern Minnesota is home to some of the best places for ...

From the column: " Minnesotans support mining in general but agree that some places are too special, too unique, and too ...

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 ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber, R-Minn, ...

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 ...

As many times as he had driven on the Gunflint Trail adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Lee Frelich had never seen telephone poles burning and couldn't imagine that outfitters' ...

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 ...

Republicans are investigating green groups' role in the Biden administration's scrapping of mine leases near the Minnesota ...

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, ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...