Mark Persons' father, Charles, put WELY(AM) in Ely, Minn., on the air in 1954. Mark explains its checkered past and its ...

ELY, Minn. - A body was recovered following a cabin fire Monday morning east of here on Greenstone Lake. The Lake County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at 5:02 a.m. Monday from a 49-year-old man ...

That Ely does not have a floating sauna tells you all you need to know about the difference between that northeast Minnesota town and the state’s other, and tonier, Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

The rural city in northern Minnesota – located just outside the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness – has become a regular hangout for several gray wolves that have ...

Residents of Eagles Nest Township, a small community southwest of Ely, Minn., have spent more than a decade preparing for wildfires. Here’s a look at their efforts. Ely is a small town with a big ...

ELY, Minn. - The 49-year-old man who died in a cabin fire in Lake County east of Ely on Monday morning has been identified as Brant Harris of Ely. The cabin, accessible only by water, was on ...

ELY, Minn — A woman and two dogs died in a house fire in Ely this week. According to the Ely Fire Department, crews were called to the house on North 5th Avenue East Tuesday around 11 p.m. When ...

ELY, Minn. — When you think of Ely, you might think of a log cabin, cozy night by the fire or beautiful hike in the woods. That's why Afar Magazine named Ely as Minnesota's most charming small town.

ELY, Minn. -- A rescue squad has recovered the body of a missing snowmobiler from a lake in northeastern Minnesota. St. Louis County authorities said the sheriff's volunteer rescue squad found the ...

Michael Coyle is out as CEO of Ely (Minn.)-Bloomenson Community Hospital, the Ely Echo reports. Mr. Coyle and the hospital board finalized a “formal separation” on March 4. In a statement cited by the ...

ELY, Minn. — Becky Rom has been fighting to protect the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since she was in middle school. As the granddaughter of a miner and the daughter of a pioneer in ...

Ely (Minn.)-Bloomenson Community Hospital’s critical-access hospital status is in jeopardy after CMS sent a Dec. 11 letter that said it had 60 days to reapply due to population changes in the county. ...