The U.S. Senate is expected to vote in late February on a proposal that would undo protections for the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota.

Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House ...

Environmental advocates are sounding the alarm as a proposal to overturn a mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

In January, the U.S. House narrowly passed the bill from GOP Rep. Pete Stauber to overturn the mining ban near the Boundary ...

Leaders and supporters with the national Save the Boundary Waters coalition gathered this week to voice opposition to a recent House bill aimed at overturning a 20‑year mining ban near the Boundary ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, who co-chairs the bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, was instrumental in ...

The U.S. House passed a resolution to repeal a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota's Superior National Forest. Environmental groups oppose the measure, citing risks of toxic pollution to the nearby ...

The U.S. Senate will decide whether to allow mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters after the House voted to revoke a 20-year ban on mineral extraction there this week. This opens a new chapter in a ...

Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House ...

I have been privileged to hunt, hike, camp, and canoe the wildlands of Northeastern Minnesota in the greater Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness region since I was a teenager in the 1980s. Later, I ...

In a move with dangerous implications for public lands across the country, the US House of Representatives passed a controversial bill that paves the way for a foreign-owned mine upstream of the ...