Dear editor, We have seen this all too often, jargon from a mining company promising to upright a town's economy by bringing ...

Lac du Flambeau tribal officials are calling on people to help stop potential mining in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. “We are asking all of those water protectors to take action,” read a July 7 post on the ...

MADISON (AP) -- Republicans moved closer Thursday to lifting Wisconsin's nearly 20-year ban on gold and silver mining, pushing a bill that would eliminate the prohibition through the state Assembly ...

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...

HIGHLAND — The first year he planted soybeans in the 22-acre field at the edge of town, Kurt Menke noticed something odd: His crop came up healthy, but sometime in June the plants in one section all ...