In recent years, the ranger stations have issued fewer permits than the dozens of certified outfitters in the northern part ...

Some Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness paddlers will have to change where they pick up permits for their trips this ...

U.S. Forest Service officials have informed Boundary Waters permit holders and cooperating businesses that they won’t be ...

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

Northern Minnesota is home to some of the darkest and most pristine night skies in the United States. The Boundary Waters ...

Spring may be trying to make its move across northern Minnesota, but inland lakes in the Superior National Forest and ...

A collection of canoe stories from a Minnesota author has been published in a book called "Pushing the River." ...

This legislation builds on years of advocacy by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, also a Minnesota Democrat, who has championed the ...

A loon flaps its wings on Eddy Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture issues clarification after emergency order seeking to expand logging in national forests.

Now that U.S. Sen. Tina Smith is not running for re-election, she has introduced legislation this week that "would protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness (BWCA) from the threat ...

As Rep. Angie Craig takes her town halls to greater Minnesota, Republican colleagues say she may be violating House ethics rules ...