The Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota is not only revered for its beauty. Deep underground lay some of the richest, ...

The Boundary Waters first gained protection in 1926 and became a federally protected area in 1978 with the passage of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act. As one of the country's oldest ...

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 Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Forest ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...