Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the ...

Never mind that past polls have found that most Minnesotans, including those in northern Minnesota, don’t want mining near ...

Minnesota lawmakers introduce a bill to extend the state ban on mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It ...

Friends of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness face 'an uphill battle' preventing new mining operations nearby ...

Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the ...

Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

In his statement, Stauber says his bill would reinstate mineral leases in the area, describing that Biden's decision to ...

Representative Pete Stauber (R-MN) says the 232 steel tariffs President Donald Trump implemented during his first term shows how invested he is in American mining and manufacturing. “Northeast ...

Stauber’s “Superior National Forest Restoration Act” would scrap an order the Biden administration issued in January of 2023, which withdrew 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest from new ...

$25 million in outside spending flowed into races for the Minnesota Legislature in 2024 ... that could pave the way for copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

The bill would also return two key federal mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota, the company vying to build an underground mine for copper and nickel near Ely In this file photo from 2010 ...