DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — After emotional testimony from area residents, the Becker County Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit for a gravel pit in Lake Eunice Township, roughly between ...

The Mississippi River snakes below the bluffs at Spring Lake Park Reserve near Hastings, where people stroll or ski along the ...

PLAINFIELD, MI -- Grand Rapids Gravel Co. will go forward with its plans to continue mining and hauling operations for another three years. On Monday, April 8, the Plainfield Township Board ...

DETROIT LAKES — Matt Hedstrom was an American Family insurance agent in Detroit Lakes for many years before his retirement, and he got along with just about everybody. So it’s been a shock to his ...

SHARON TWP., MI — A mining company isn’t giving up on a legal dispute with a rural township in southwestern Washtenaw County. Michigan Materials and Aggregates Co., also known as Stoneco of Michigan, ...

Don Minick remembers getting up at 3:30 a.m. on summer mornings to drive to his job in Sacramento, and hearing noise from a gravel operation a mile away from his Red Dog Road home. “I could hear their ...

GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A horse farm in Gaines Township is suing a mining company over its plans for a gravel pit next to the property. Doretta Anema, owner of Anema Family Friesians, bought her ...

GRAFTON — A man working at a local gravel business died Saturday after a piece of equipment hit him, State Police said. Troopers were called to R.J. Valente Gravel on State Route 2 at 8:13 a.m. to ...

LANSING — A not-in-my-backyard fight over opening new mines to source aggregates for Michigan road and bridge projects is back before lawmakers, with a coalition of industry groups and labor unions ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SILVERTHORNE — City Market grocery worker Oumar Ba breathed deep in Colorado’s Blue River Valley between wilderness mountains, remembering the beauty of his ...