Leaders and supporters with the national Save the Boundary Waters coalition gathered this week to voice opposition to a ...

Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus divided along partisan lines as co-chair whipped votes to overturn minerals ban.

Congressional Republicans have moved closer to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...

A proposal to repeal a ban on mining in northeastern Minnesota’s Superior National Forest is headed to the U.S. Senate ...

Federal lawmakers have taken a major step toward opening a tract of land near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

The House of Representatives, spurred by Rep. Ryan Zinke, voted to override a 3-year-old Interior Department order that temporarily banned copper sulfide mining in the headwaters of the Boundary ...

Often described as a pristine wilderness, Minnesota's Boundary Waters is now steeped in a renewed effort to fend off mining interests ...

The House of Representatives voted "yes" on a resolution to repeal existing protections in a watershed neighboring the ...

Legislation concerning to regional sportsmen introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn., 8th) passed the House of ...

The resolution, which would allow mining of copper, nickel and other metals in the Superior National Forest south of the ...

Lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives voted to lift a federal ban on mining in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe ...

The U.S. House of Representatives is voting Wednesday on a bill that would reverse a 20-year ban on mining in the Boundary ...