NASHWAUK, Minn. — A controversial $2 billion-plus mining project on Minnesota’s Iron Range that has weathered an economic recession, missed deadlines and payments, bankruptcy, changes in ...

All right. Hopefully, you're not afraid of the dark or of heights because we're about to plunge more than 2,300 feet underground, into Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. The state provides most of ...

This lake 10 miles south of Ely looks like many of the waterways of Minnesota’s North Woods, with a rippling surface reflecting a bright blue sky, spruce stands towering along the shore. But the tea ...

More women are working in the mining industry than ever before. And on Monday, the International Day of Women in Mining lunch ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Supported by By Charles Homans Photographs by Jenn Ackerman Reporting from the mining towns of Chisholm, Hibbing and Virginia on Minnesota’s Iron Range Once a week, most weeks, the ground in ...

Environmental activists are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to open up the land near the Boundary Waters to ...

But many Minnesota factory heads have yet to see it, and instead are juggling budgets as orders dry up while their own costs ...

With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. A mine near Mountain Iron, Minn., part of the ...

State media outlets are reporting Minnesota Legislators have extended unemployment benefits for Iron Range miners who have been laid off.