By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Jun. 6--Legislation in the U.S. House would sell 6,700 acres in the Superior National Forest to the Polymet copper company without an environmental assessment or public input.

By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Feb. 5--Minnesota loggers should be able to cut more trees in the state's two national forests over the next year or so thanks to an extra budget infusion from the federal government.

An out-of-work David Thomas walked into a Milwaukee food pantry just seeking groceries. Thomas learned he was a stroke waiting to happen and got blood pressure medicine along with his bread. Food pantries have long aimed to help heal hunger.

Food pantries have long aimed to help heal hunger. A new project aims to see how well they can help heal high blood pressure, diabetes and other ailments, too.

By Dave Orrick, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. May 19--Jim Sanders hears it all the time: If you feds had opened the Boundary Waters to logging after the 1999 "blowdown," we wouldn't have all these fire problems.