As seen in southern California, just a single spark can set off a fire that in tinder-dry conditions can expand rapidly and burn anything and everything in its path. The fires, which broke out ...

An 80-year-old woman died Monday after suffering severe burns in a fire outside ... in northern Minnesota, police say. The woman was on a motorized scooter outside of the Boundary Waters Care ...

An 80-year-old nursing home resident in a mobility scooter caught on fire and died, Minnesota police say ... 6, about a fire at the Boundary Waters Care Center in Ely, the Ely Police Department ...

The backstory: The Boundary Waters Wilderness Act was a massive piece of legislation for northern Minnesota. The act banned logging, mining, snowmobiles use, boat use in some areas, and created a ...

BWCAW permit reservations for the 2025 season go on sale at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 29. Those interested in booking a ...

Proposed mines in northern Minnesota face an easier path with ... a massive underground copper-nickel mine in the watershed ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of expanding mining and drilling near the Boundary Waters are cheering another ... that," said Julie Lucas with Mining Minnesota. In an interview with WCCO in December ...

When you look at what did President Carter do for Minnesota, it was to create the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and each year 150,000 to 200,000 people come to the Boundary Waters and have ...

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second largest wilderness east of the Rockies and surprisingly easy to access. Bill Forsberg, Jr., ...

Episode 115–Travel in the “Shoulder Season.” Kyle Johnson is relatively new to the Boundary Waters, but so far has ...

The permits could have allowed Antofagasta’s Twin Metals Minnesota to significantly expand its proposed sulfide-ore copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern ...