Russell Wicklund, right, from Forest Lake, Minn., leads a crew of female Scouts from the state of Virginia as they leave from the Northern Tier Adventure Camp near Ely into the Boundary Waters ...

In Ely, Minnesota, one family worries about the fate of their dogsled business with warmer winters and declining snowpack with climate change. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from future mining, dealing a potentially fatal blow to a copper-nickel ...