U.S. Representative Rick Nolan is urging Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt to extend unemployment benefits for hundreds of laid-off steelworkers on the Iron Range.
Without a special session, many miners say they’re left digging for answers as what to do next to support their families.
Four Iron Range lawmakers wrote to Speaker of the House Kurk Daudt to express their disappointment following the announcement that there will be no special session to help laid-off steelworkers.
Governor Dayton said Tuesday that he is dropping his push for a special legislative session to help laid-off steelworkers.
The city of Silver Bay has been hit hard by the mining crisis, so state officials came together Wednesday to listen and learn about the serious effects of the local mine going idle.
Work on a raised road across the Rouchleau Pit is expected to be done in two weeks
No final decision has been made yet on benefits for laid off Iron Range mining workers.
Magnetation announced Wednesday it is implementing a temporary production curtailment at its Plant 2 facility in Bovey.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is giving lawmakers a deadline to decide on a special session.
Essar Steel has accepted Governor Mark Dayton’s final offer for repayment of the state’s $66 million loan.
After losing more mining jobs this past year due to tough conditions in the steel industry. A sadness fills Silver Bay, many people unemployed and unsure when they will return to work.
A laid-off Iron Range Steelworker will be attending President Obama’s State of the Union Address.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has set a firm deadline for Essar Steel to repay the state’s $65.9 million loan.
Eight development infrastructure projects and investment in two rural broadband projects were considered by the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board meeting Monday.
U.S. Steel Corporation and the United Steelworkers union have announced tentative agreement on a new contract covering about 18,000 workers at more than a dozen facilities across the country.
Governor Mark Dayton and top Minnesota lawmakers are meeting Thursday to discuss a possible special session to help laid-off steelworkers.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough will visit Virginia next week to discuss the mining layoffs on the Iron Range and the national steel crisis.
Midwest Energy Resources Company (MERC) transshipped its 500 millionth ton of coal on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, with the loading of Interlake Steamship Company’s M/V Paul R. Tregurtha for the DTE Electric Company.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has sent a letter to the Minnesota House Speaker urging an extension of unemployment benefits for mineworkers.
Governor Mark Dayton has given Essar Steel an ultimatum, telling them they have until Wednesday to pay up to local construction companies or face immediate repayment of the state’s $66 million dollar loan.
Minnesota power has signed a 10-year contact to supply electricity to ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker.
Congressman Rick Nolan is pushing for a bill to restrengthen the mining industry in Minnesota following hundreds of layoffs over the last few weeks.
In light of the mining industry taking a big hit in Minnesota, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken are teaming up to crack down on illegal steel dumping.
It’s another blow to the mining industry in Minnesota.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Tuesday that it is temporarily idling iron ore pellet production at its Northshore Mining operation in Minnesota by Dec. 1, 2015.
The Chief Executive of Cliffs Natural Resources is now saying he has no plans to permanently idle of close any of their Minnesota mines if an Essar steel taconite plant currently under construction in Nashwauk goes into production.
The chief executive of Cliffs Natural Resources says he’ll close one of his operations on Minnesota’s Iron Range if an Essar Steel taconite plant under construction in Nashwauk goes into production.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton was in Eveleth Monday to meet with Essar Steel officials.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Tuesday that, effective October 5, 2015, it has terminated its Pellet Sale and Purchase Agreement with Essar Algoma.
Another 210 workers at the Keetac taconite plant could face layoffs as U.S. Steel plans another full idling of the facility.
The Federal Highway Administration has cleared the Highway 53 relocation project from Virginia to Eveleth for final permitting and construction, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said Friday.
