Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. ELY, ...

Wilderness Watch alleged in its lawsuit that the Forest Service has allowed BWCA towboat use to exceed quota limits set by a ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness could have looked very different if it wasn’t for what former President Jimmy Carter championed while in office. With a stroke of the pen more than 40 years ...

The pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness faces new threats from proposed copper-nickel sulfide mining projects in ...

Minnesota Boundary Waters. Photo by Peter de Sibour, courtesy of Explore Minnesota. Minnesota is home to one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world: the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness spanning northeast Minnesota and southern Ontario has been a haven for generations of outdoorsmen. This includes Jacob Skorloken, who caught one of the ...

When Republican Congressman Pete Stauber of Duluth announced legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters earlier this month, he forgot to mention one thing: what the rest of us want. Stauber ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber, R-Minn, ...

The Minnesota State Capitol rotunda was full for a rally to prevent mining in the Boundary Waters on Thursday May 8th. The rally was organized by multiple organizations including Sportsmen for the ...

MINNEAPOLIS – President Donald Trump's administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. — The Minnesota National Guard is joining the efforts to find two missing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Gov. Tim Walz announced ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Forest ...