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

ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed ...

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

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

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters ...

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

On average, 150,000 to 160,000 people visit the Boundary Waters each year. This year’s bookings began on Jan. 29. Tens of ...

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 ...

A Minnesota Congressman has reintroduced a bill that would restore mineral permits and leases in parts of the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a move opposed by ...

Republican Congressman Pete Stauber and Democratic Congresswoman Betty McCollum continue to go back and forth on an exeuctive ...

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

The bill would also return two key federal mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota, the company vying to build an underground mine for copper and nickel near Ely In this file photo from 2010 ...