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Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend On The Move Magnetation to double iron recovery Startup company secures another Iron Range Resources loan to expand processing of abandoned tailings from natural ore era.

MN2nd NewsMinute,0254 Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS It's another busy day for Senator-elect Al Franken.

Sen.-elect Al Franken is already marching into his new role: He'll participate in six Independence Day parades on Minnesota's Iron Range.

Cliffs Natural Resources announced today, July 2, that soft demand for iron ore pellets led to a decision to extend the shutdown at Hibbing Taconite through the first quarter of 2010.

The Wall Street Journal says a climate-change bill's fate rests with our own Collin Peterson , and environmentalists aren't happy with the "Marlboro-smoking" congressman.

Art and music classes are history, too. Almost a quarter of the teachers were laid off to fix a deficit.

There's no band anymore at Nashwauk-Keewatin Schools. Art and music classes are history, too.

A motorcyclist struck a car that crossed into her path and was killed at an intersection on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, authorities said.

If Jason Hemphill cuts corners in his personal finances, he thinks he can "survive the summer." The heavy equipment operator at Hibbing Taconite is one of 440 union workers who will be furloughed by the end of ...

Mining layoffs and slowdowns. An imploding economy. A drop in steel demand. The current business climate reminds some on the Iron Range of the tough times in the 1980s, when similar conditions crushed the ...

Employees of yet another Iron Range mine are preparing for an upcoming shutdown.

In fewer than 10 months, Magnetation has gone from applying for permits, to rolling out concentrate.

U.S. Steel Corp. said Thursday it is laying off 500 union and 90 management employees at its Minntac taconite facility on Minnesota's Iron Range, nearly half the plant's workers.

A Keewatin man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for firing a gun at law officers trying to execute a search warrant.

Nearly 600 workers on Minnesota's Iron Range are losing their jobs. U.S. Steel announced Thursday it will lay off 590 workers and idle two additional lines at its Minntac Mine in Mountain Iron.

A truck dumps taconite ore into one of the crushers at Hibbing Taconite Co. in Hibbing, Minn.

Five Itasca County communities are looking at ways to work together as they look to the future in these tough economic times.

With the taconite industry in the dumps, many people on Minnesota's Iron Range are eagerly awaiting a federal stimulus package.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online Housing Team: Range still needs housing; but economic downturn is reducing the projected ...

"These days I think more about the little houses I see along the train tracks at the edges of our Iron Range towns.