Discover why Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area is the ultimate wilderness escape for summer 2025. Canoes, solitude, and serious wow factor.

With a new EP of meticulous, melodramatic emo, Chicago five-piece Boundary Waters prove you don’t have to quit your basement ...

Authorities in northern Minnesota are asking the public’s help in locating a missing man from Silver Bay after they ...

An all-female team is more than a month into a self-supported 1,900km kayaking expedition from Grand Portage on Lake Superior ...

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

The Biden administration on Thursday announced protections near a vast wilderness area in Minnesota where proposed copper mining has raised environmental concerns.

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northeastern Minnesota isn’t just a beautiful spot; it’s an ...

A lake within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Sept. 4, 2019, in Ely, Minn. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) The Aug. 27 editorial “A safer strategy for going green” pointed to ...

Climate change, blue-green algae blooms, microplastics are making their mark on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota.

Boundary Waters is the most visited wilderness area in the nation, with more than 1,200 miles of canoe routes and 2,000 designated campsites within its million acres of lakes and forests that ...

Biden halts new mining near Boundary Waters for 20 years The administration is bringing back an Obama-era decision, later reversed by Trump, that bans new mineral leases on 225,500 acres of the ...

On a very buggy day at the end of June, a small crew of four from the Cook County Highway Department, lead by Agriculture ...