President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration ...

The bill would have stripped protections from the Boundary Waters watershed, opening the door to potentially toxic copper mining without any chance for public challenge or judicial review.

Chris Knopf, executive director of Friends of the Boundary Waters, noted the battle is not over. “For conservationists, every victory is temporary and every defeat is permanent,” Knopf said.

Some of the changes to the bill would directly impact a pristine piece of Minnesota — the Boundary Waters. Mining was set to return up north with a provision in the president's bill, until now.

The Senate has asked the House to strike the reversal of the Boundary Waters mineral lease withdrawal from the Big Beautiful Bill. 743K ; 204K ; 62K ; 108K ; Search for: Search for: Hunting. Big Game ...

Minnesota wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been 100% contained. Suppression of the 13-acre fire has been complicated because of its remote location.

Tails, the public and the Boundary Waters lose." Local View: Don't end-run the law to allow mining near the Boundary Waters - Duluth News Tribune | News, weather, and sports from Duluth, Minnesota ...

In 2023, the Department of the Interior put a 20-year ban on all mining activity in the watershed that feeds the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Now Congress is on the cusp of ...

Ben Strege helps get people into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. But after the news last week that trip fees there could substantially increase, the part-time wilderness guide said he ...

After several months of anticipatory cackling and rubbing of hands, several Minnesota delegates are dejectedly walking away from the 104th Congress without a battle over the motorization of the ...