Isle Royale National Park was established 85 years ago, on April 3, 1940. But did you know it had a ghostly twin?

TACONITE HARBOR, Minn ... The town's history goes like this: a break wall was built around two nearby islands on Lake Superior to protect boats picking up iron ore. "Then they needed a ...

Operation Taconite is the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest domestic Ice Breaking operation. The operation encompasses Lake Superior ... and the safety of the island residents, who during their ...

The Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa, which did not respond to the News Tribune's request for comment Thursday, has argued continued mercury emission from taconite plants would threaten ...

Lake Superior alone holds 10 percent of the world's readily available ... Any new heavy-metals mines in northeastern Minnesota would be in addition to the many open-pit iron-ore and taconite mines in ...