Minnesotans can recall how, in 2023, elected state lawmakers stalled for months to extend unemployment benefits to 400 laid-off Iron Range miners, even when the benefits ran out — right before ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone living on the Iron Range that minerals matter. Iron production makes Minnesota the fifth-largest mineral-producing state in the U.S., powering Minnesota’s ...

Nearly 600 Iron Range steelworkers are being temporarily laid off in early May due to an excess accumulation of iron ore. Workers at Hibbing Taconite Company and Minorca Mine are being impacted.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iron ore at one of U.S. Steel's Minnesota mining operations, Minntac in Mountain Iron and Keetac in Keewatin. Courtesy photo: U.S.

Nearly 600 steelworkers from Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. are being laid off after the company announced its intentions to temporarily idle two Iron Range facilities. In letters to the company's employees, ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has officially signed a bill renaming part of Highway 169 in honor of a longtime Iron Range lawmaker. The approximately 40-mile stretch of the highway between the City of ...

Cleveland-Cliffs said it would temporarily idle two of its Iron Range mines and taconite pellet plants and lay off 630 workers. The iron ore mining and steel-making company said it would idle its ...

MOUNTAIN IRON, Minn. — Jay Jensen’s daughter spent 9 months on a waitlist to get into Iron Range Tykes, one of few children’s learning centers in this area of northern Minnesota that is considered a ...

Hundreds of people stood in a long line that snaked outside the offices of Mesabi Metallics in Nashwauk last week, eagerly awaiting the chance to get an up-close look at the largest mining trucks ever ...