An Upper Peninsula iron ore mine will buy power for 20 years from a utility through an agreement designed to provide a long-term power solution for the region whose residents have faced uncertainty over rate hikes.

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Iron County officials say other developers with better qualifications than Gogebic Taconite are interested in mining ore in the Penokee Hills.

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Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to review whether hunting and fishing fees collected by the state should be used to pay for costs related to sighting an open pit iron ore mine near Lake Superior.

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Gogebic Taconite says its application to develop an iron ore mine in northwestern Wisconsin will be pushed back until at least the fall of next year.

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A way of life dating back more than a century appeared over in Michigan's Upper Peninsula when the last copper mine closed in 1995, idling more than 1,000 employees and turning this once-thriving company town into a forlorn outpost.

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Public access to a proposed iron ore mine site in northern Wisconsin would be restricted under a bill headed to Gov. Scott Walker for his consideration.

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A hearing on a plan to develop an iron ore mine in the Penokee Range of northern Wisconsin is expected to draw a crowd.

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A provision designed to limit public access to the proposed site of an iron ore mine near Lake Superior will not be included in the state budget, Assembly Republican leaders said Wednesday.

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A company looking to dig a huge iron mine in northwestern Wisconsin is having problems with protesters.

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A mining company has reduced the number of test holes it plans to make for a proposed iron ore mine near Lake Superior.

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