For most of my life I have paddled, camped, fished, hunted, struggled, prayed, bled and grown in the Boundary Waters. It's ...

From the column: " Minnesotans support mining in general but agree that some places are too special, too unique, and too ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. ELY, ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness spanning northeast Minnesota and southern Ontario has been a haven for generations of outdoorsmen. This includes Jacob Skorloken, who caught one of the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from future mining, dealing a potentially fatal blow ...

For decades, lawmakers, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Forest Service bargained over potential land swaps for the 80,000 acres. Starting in the 2010s, they tried pursuing ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Saturday closed the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota as the largest active wildfire in the state threatens the 1-million-acre property ...

DULUTH — Minnesota officials have proposed selling approximately 80,000 acres of school trust land scattered throughout the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the federal government, which ...

I didn’t expect to sleep much that night. I’d planned to leave around six the next morning for a canoe trip with the Simpkins family to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. I’d been planning and ...

A search and rescue effort is ongoing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area to find a man who went missing earlier this month.

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. — The Minnesota National Guard is joining the efforts to find two missing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Gov. Tim Walz announced ...