Minnesota lawmakers introduce a bill to extend the state ban on mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It ...

Whether they’re conservative or liberal, people in Ely seem to agree on one thing: they love the Boundary Waters. What they ...

Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

U.S. Forest Service officials who oversee the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) once again pleaded with visitors ...

Permits for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) summer season are ready to hit the hands of adventurous travelers. Passes for the 2025 quota season, May 1 through September 30, become ...

Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the ...

Four college students are currently planning an 85 day, 1,200 mile canoe trip from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay.

The legislation threatens meaningful public input processes that have been critical in the fight to protect the Boundary ...

Pete Stauber (Minnesota, District 8) re-introduced the Superior National Forest Restoration Act, which would reverse the historic 2023 Biden administration decision to protect 225,504 acres of the ...

In his statement, Stauber says his bill would reinstate mineral leases in the area, describing that Biden's decision to ...

ELY, MINNESOTA — If mines are developed in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, an environmental ...

Worse yet, the new bill would automatically force the issuance of federal mineral leases to Chilean mining giant Antofagasta without review.