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Tucked away in Minnesota’s northern wilderness, where cell signals fade and pristine lakes stretch to the horizon, lies a small town that feels like stepping into a different era – Ely, where the ...

Ely, Minnesota isn’t just a gateway to the million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—it’s becoming known as a haven where retirees can actually live comfortably on their Social Security ...

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What once seemed like a fringe idea is now entering formal politics. A Republican lawmaker has introduced legislation ...

Some Ely residents aren’t too thrilled about their newest neighbors. The rural city in northern Minnesota — located just outside the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...

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… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Several gray wolves have been sighted in and around Ely since last spring, and ...

Residents of a small northern Minnesota city are on edge after multiple gray wolf sightings. Bold and repeated sightings of the beasts prowling residential streets of Ely and even on school grounds ...

Proving the power of nostalgia and a good bowl of soup, the answer many longtime Minnesotans give when asked where to find ...