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MARQUETTE, MI-- State Senator Ed McBroom wants to hear from businesses having problems with rail service in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin.…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- Four years after relaxing the state's iron mining laws, Wisconsin Republicans are pushing to lift a moratorium on copper and gold…
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MADISON, WI (WPR)-- A legislator plans to introduce a bill this session that would lift Wisconsin's mining moratorium. Gov. Tommy Thompson signed the…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- A Wisconsin legislator has proposed a bill that would scale back local governments' ability to regulate sand mines and blasting.…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- A bipartisan group of lawmakers is developing an alternative to barring the public from 3,500 acres of forest around a proposed mine…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- The author of a bill that would restrict public access to a northern Wisconsin mine site says he doesn't have the votes to pass it…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- A legislative committee has approved a Republican bill that would close thousands of acres around a potential mine site in far northern…
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MADISON, WI (AP)-- A Republican lawmaker says the Legislature must close the woods around a northern Wisconsin mine site to protect miners and public…