The Trump administration and U.S. Congress are launching a plan this week to overturn former President Joe Biden's mining ban ...

State officials have given the go-ahead to Franconia Minerals, a subsidiary of Twin Metals, to conduct exploratory drilling ...

In 1909, Spanish-American War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient President Theodore Roosevelt established the Superior National Forest “for the use and benefit of the people.” Since then millions of ...

ELY, Minn. — Mining near the Boundary Waters has been a painful debate for a while. Now in Washington, there is another chapter. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) raised a red flag on a section in ...

Hal Herring is a Field & Stream contributing editor and the host of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ Podcast & Blast. In Hal’s opinion, “The future of the American public lands is as important to our ...

Republicans are investigating green groups’ role in the Biden administration’s scrapping of mine leases near the Minnesota wilderness area. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans this week ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Mercury contamination is growing in northern Minnesota’s lakes, MPR News says.

ON FARM LAKE NEAR ELY, Minn. — Dave Setterholm steered his motorboat across Farm Lake then cut the engine along the Kawishiwi River near the edge of the Boundary Waters wilderness. Cross into the ...

What better way to support a critical ecosystem in Northern Minnesota than with live music, cold beverages, and all sorts of summer festivities? That’s exactly what Bent Paddle Brewing Co. is doing ...