The pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness faces new threats from proposed copper-nickel sulfide mining projects in ...

The land features more than 8 miles of shoreline, including part of the headwaters of the Rainy River watershed, which flows ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Family and friends flooded Sarah Olson of Jordan, Minn., with calls and texts in the harrowing ...

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 Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota is not only revered for its beauty. Deep underground lay some of the richest, untapped mineral deposits in the world.

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 ...

Emma Brackett, Abby Cichocki, Helena Karlstrom, and Olivia Bledsoe, a Virginia Tech junior, became the first publicly ...

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 ...

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 ...