Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• NASHWAUK, MINN. – Last week, I gazed up at the largest mining truck in Iron Range history — a ...

Minnesota is a state rich in minerals. Northern Minnesota is well-known for more than a century of iron ore mining — and more ...

In the summer of 1977, the leaders of a small Iron Range town made a rather bold announcement: Kinney, Minn., had seceded from the United States. The statement was tongue-in-cheek, but the town’s ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Once, when I was little, my teenage aunt was stuck babysitting me against her ...

Iron ore at one of U.S. Steel's Minnesota mining operations, Minntac in Mountain Iron and Keetac in Keewatin. Courtesy photo: U.S. Steel. Nippon Steel completed its purchase of U.S. Steel last week, ...

Iron ore pellets made on Minnesota's Iron Range will feed a blast furnace being restarted by United States Steel Corp.

A region near the Canadian border, whose mines provide most of the new ore used in producing domestic steel — and cars — has a lot at stake as trade wars intensify. A region near the Canadian border, ...