Funding for a program that has taken hundreds of Minnesota youths camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and taught outdoor skills to thousands more was cut just days before the end of ...

A grant for educational BWCA programming was removed from state funding. Those in support of the program claim this was ...

Wisconsin lawmakers in both chambers of Congress voted on a bill overturning a 20-year mining ban in the area surrounding the ...

President Donald Trump has lifted a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing ...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to end a mining ban near the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota. The measure passed on a ...

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota is filled with more than a thousand lakes and rivers. But a recent vote in congress to allow mining nearby could threaten the preserve's waterways.

A Minnesota-based wilderness protection group is sounding the alarm that a nearly-overturned mining ban in the U.S. will open the door to copper-sulfide mining — a move they say risks leaking sulfuric ...

Why the flooding?: Snowmelt and late April–early May rains are pushing high water through the Boundary Waters, impacting lakes and waterways. Where’s at risk?: Areas near Basswood Lake and Lac La ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Saturday closed the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota as the largest active wildfire in the state threatens the 1-million-acre property ...

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 ...