The company that proposed opening a $1.5 billion iron mine in Ashland and Iron counties is taking a first step in making good on its threat to withdraw from Wisconsin. In a letter Friday to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lac du Flambeau tribal officials are calling on people to help stop potential mining in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. “We are asking all ...

Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans to impose new restrictions on the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. The state Department of Natural ...

Wisconsin lawmakers in both chambers of Congress voted on a bill overturning a 20-year mining ban in the area surrounding the ...