ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed ...

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

The legislation threatens meaningful public input processes that have been critical in the fight to protect the Boundary ...

The court said the state agency must determine, again, whether the planned expansion of a basin holding back mine waste near ...

The tailings basin at Milepost 7 could be studied for the cumulative effects of extending its dams, even though the project ...

That must have been devastating for the many hard-drinking coal miners in Sego, five miles north of Thompson Springs, Utah, at the edge of the Book Cliffs ... was a typical mining community ...

Next, we are expected to see dueling legislation from two Minnesota members of Congress. Republican congressman Pete Stauber will introduce mining expansion bills, and Democratic congresswoman ...

Demonstrators shown outside the Hennepin County Jail to protest against the Trump administration's immigration policies in 2018. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

They're good wages. The health insurance is amazing. And it's hard not to be excited about that," said Julie Lucas with Mining Minnesota. In an interview with WCCO in December, GOP Rep.

After former President Obama issued a mining moratorium in 2016, Donald Trump reversed it during his first term — and returned mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota. President Biden then ...