As President Donald Trump lifts “undue burdens” on U.S. mines, the shift in the federal posture could boost long-simmering ...

Lawmakers should pass these bills and ensure our natural treasures remain a shared sanctuary for future generations.

Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The bill ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The fire still smoldering in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness should give a boost in the long-run to the region’s declining moose population, but it’s a big ...

Thanks to a relatively rare occurrence of conditions, interest in skating northern Minnesota’s unmaintained lakes and rivers has shot up this year.

The sky above Fire Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is alight with stars in this 2018 photo. (Mark Vancleave/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A plan for the U.S. Forest Service to buy the remaining state lands still inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area has become an emerging issue in the debate over the area’s future.

President Donald Trump has made the raw materials of modern life a pillar of U.S. foreign policy. He has talked about acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral wealth and prodding Ukraine for minerals ...