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 ...

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 ...

The operation, which would be located south of Delavan Drive near La Prairie Park, would offer 20 to 24 jobs, mostly truck drivers and operators of extraction equipment, said Eric Gilbert of Hartford, ...

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 ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — A county judge has again sided with a rural township that denied a mining company’s proposed 400-acre gravel mine in southwestern Washtenaw County. But the dispute is not ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A Gallatin Gateway nonprofit has sued the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to contest ...

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 ...

LANSING — Gravel miners and other business groups are launching a new push to make it easier to open sand and gravel mines in residential areas, and this time they have new bills and a new primary ...

FREEDOM TWP., MI — A sand and gravel mining firm has plans to extract millions of tons of materials in a rural community west of Ann Arbor. Stone Co. of Michigan, also known as Michigan Paving and ...

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 ...