The area is separate and just south of where Twin Metals has proposed building its underground copper-nickel mine.

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

Open to everyone and built for people with disabilities, North of North Resort sits on 1,100 feet of Birch Lake shoreline. Britta Leary, 7, runs alongside her dad, Sean Leary, as they travel down the ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released its list of proposed impaired waters Tuesday, and for the first time, it included a lake flowing into the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) recently released its biennial draft of impaired waters in Minnesota — and a lake near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) made the list. Birch Lake, a ...

The legal game of ping pong between Twin Metals and the U.S. Government continues following a federal judge's decision Wednesday to toss out a lawsuit filed by the mining giant over a proposed ...

Anglers who like to fish some of the big, popular lakes in northeastern Minnesota should pay attention to possible rule changes, and now is the chance to give your input on those regulations. The ...

Jennifer Mayerle happily returned to Minnesota and WCCO, where she began her career as a summer intern. The Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist returned to WCCO as a reporter in 2014 ...

This area of forest near the Kawishiwi River and Birch Lake and just outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is where Twin Metals wants to build much of the infrastructure for its mining ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday it has reinstated the mineral rights leases for a company that wants to build a copper-nickel mine near Ely in northeastern Minnesota, ...