Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure Monday clearing the way for mining copper and gold in Wisconsin, handing a win to business groups over the proposal's environmental opponents. In signing Assembly ...

A mining company has gotten conditional approval to begin exploratory drilling for copper and gold in northern Wisconsin, but state regulators say it must still meet additional requirements before the ...

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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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Monday lifting Wisconsin’s moratorium on gold and silver mining, reversing his vote from nearly 20 years ago imposing the ban and brushing aside ...

Sen. Bob Jauch called the military-style security that was in place at Gogebic Taconite's planned mining site in northern Wisconsin “excessive,” while Rep. Mark Honadel defended the company's actions ...

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 ...