The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has found hazardous, asbestos-like minerals in a rock taken from the site of a controversial proposed iron mine. If further testing shows that large ...

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson gained a noticeable amount of muscle mass for his role in 'The Smashing Machine' Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic ; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson maintains his ...

DULUTH — President Donald Trump is giving Minnesota’s taconite iron ore mines two more years to comply with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mandate to reduce their mercury emissions — a rule ...

Taconite plants on Minnesota’s Iron Range will now get two extra years to comply with a rule that would have forced them to cut how much mercury they release into the air. A proclamation signed by ...

1. Taconite iron ore processing is fundamental to the United States’ steel production and manufacturing sectors. The facilities involved in the process supply essential raw materials used to make ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued a dam safety permit amendment authorizing NewRange Copper Nickel (formerly PolyMet Mining) to make safety-related improvements to the ...

Kid Rock is no stranger to controversy, but the singer is now making headlines for his lack of decorum in an explosive interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Rock, born Robert James Ritchie, was ...

Feb. 1—SUPERIOR — Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway is increasing the allowance for its most commonly used taconite claim this year. Residential property owners living within a half mile of the ...

Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock. Legends ...

The traveling festival Rock the Country is expanding. Co-founder Kid Rock will headline the second iteration of the event with Nickelback in 11 cities across America between April and July 2025, up ...

Northern Minnesota’s lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan’s Big ...