The U.S. Steel site in northern Minnesota had previously asked for an exception to the standard the company is now accused of violating.

Despite setbacks, Mesabi officials are vowing to complete the massive project, located just outside of Nashwauk, within a ...

Then Minnesota officials yanked key state-owned ... Sutherland began his career as an 18-year old union millwright at Butler Taconite, a small mine that operated for nearly two decades in the ...

Minnesota is scrambling to figure out how to regulate a potential new industry — one discovered by accident — that is both ...

A controversial $2 billion-plus mining project on Minnesota’s Iron Range that has weathered an economic recession, missed ...

"This is a landmark study for Minnesota and the Iron Range," School of Public Health dean John Finnegan said in the statement. "Our goal was to begin to anwer questions around how mining and taconite ...

University of Minnesota scientists have identified the chemicals tree-killing beetles use to communicate. Those could be formulated into repellents to safeguard one of the state’s signature trees.

The Twin Metals copper, nickel project within the BWCA watershed is among the mining operations ramping as opponents eye court challenges.

President-elect Donald Trump’s promised policies could have a major impact on Twin Metals’ mining project and Minnesota’s ...