Ely Mayor Heidi Omerza: “Ely is open for business!”

Officials with the Superior National Forest are ending the temporary campfire ban in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, after recent rainfall eased fire danger across northern Minnesota.

April 26th, 2026 at Como Park in St. Paul, MN.

A large coalition of of clean water supporters rallied against copper-nickel mining and other water related issues

Senator Tina Smith's Fillabuster pushes out vote on HJR140.

Our Protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness walking sub-caucus at the SD63 Convention grabbed 45 delegates and will be sending three—including myself—to the MN State DFL convention. We hope to get a r...

Proposed copper mining near the Boundary Waters: Has this ever actually been done without pollution? The answer is no.

March 28th, 2026.

Testifiers urge the legislator to protect the BWCA from risks associated with copper-nickel mining

By John Imsdahl. Writer/Reporter, The Metropolitan

By John Imsdahl. Writer/Reporter. The Metropolitan

By John Imsdahl. Writer/Reporter, The Metropolitan

By John Imsdahl. Writer/Reporter, The Metropolitan

Tonight I walked down to the VA Hospital to visit and photograph the makeshift memorial that has been constructed at the north entrance to the hospital’s parking lot off of 54th St.

By: John Imsdahl. Writer/Reporter. The Metropolitan