The area is separate and just south of where Twin Metals has proposed building its underground copper-nickel mine.

From the editorial: "There’s no reason to believe the Boundary Waters are under any sort of imminent threat — other than from ...

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, ...

Each reversal endangers the Boundary Waters, erodes public trust, and undermines decades of bipartisan conservation precedent ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – President Donald Trump's administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber, R-Minn, ...

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 ...