RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

Frac sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources Inc. processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Largely overlooked in the national debate over ...

Everyone here is engulfed in mining. It’s a huge workload for us.” Frac sand fever has hit much of west-central Wisconsin, catching residents and local governments by surprise. Permit applications ...

Business lobbyists faced off Thursday against advocates for the environment and local governments over a bill designed to roll back local powers to regulate sand mining, rock blasting and road ...

Professor Kent Syverson’s column supporting frac sand mining, which appeared in this newspaper last Sunday, raises a number of important issues, the least of which is whether we agree with him or not.

Calling silica sand a direct and indirect threat to health, community and the environment, representatives from more than a dozen organizations called for a ban on frac sand mining Monday, the eve of ...

A professor and group of student researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire claim they found elevated particulate levels associated with frac-sand mining. Although their studies didn’t ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is allowing more frac sand mines to open even though it let its environmental regulations on the industry expire nine months ago because the rules didn’t ...

Opponents recently succeeded in blocking a permit for a frac sand processing plant next door to the Cochrane-Fountain City School, a K-12 school in Buffalo County. And opposition to frac sand mining ...