The move comes months after Congress voted to end a ban on mining in the area, reviving prospects for a controversial copper-nickel mine.

The challenges of 1976 facing what became Friends of the Boundary Waters Area Wilderness are similar to those faced by the group today after Congress overturned a federal ban on mining near the Bounda...

Minnesota Democrat Tina Smith held the Senate floor for hours arguing against the removal of the ban, but GOP senators were unmoved.

A massive lobbying effort is targeting GOP senators to reject Rep. Pete Stauber’s resolution that would lift a Biden-era mineral withdrawal.