The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...

Between the unprecedented call by state agencies for Winona County to draft a frac sand EAW and outrage over the hiring of Red Wing Mayor Dennis Egan to lobby for the Minnesota Industrial Sand Council ...

CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

Fred Troendel, at podium, served as mediator at a community meeting in St. Charles, Minn. Wednesday evening at Faith Lutheran Church to inform St. Charles residents about a proposed sand washing and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Doug Losee can sum up the differences between Minnesota's and Wisconsin's frac sand mining regulations by describing how much room the two states' environmental studies take up in ...

The city of Winona could have a one-year ban on some silica sand-related businesses by the end of the day. The city council plans to meet this afternoon during an emergency meeting to consider a ...

How would you feel if you walked into a doctor’s office and the doctor told you about the potential dangers of heart surgery but didn’t tell you the risks can be minimized with proper precautions or ...

Minnesota Public Radio and other media are reporting that Wabasha group appeals OK of silica sand facility: A citizens’ group in Wabasha has appealed the city’s recent decision to allow a ...

The Cochrane-Fountain City School Board met in special session this week to formulate to stop the latest attempt to build a frac sand processing operation across the highway from the school. Glacier ...

A proposed sand quarry on public land near Dinosaur National Monument has been sidetracked into a bureaucratic inquiry regarding how to classify sand used in oil and gas drilling operations. A company ...

A Texas-based sand mining company is trying to sell off one of its four Wisconsin frac sand mines after facing bankruptcy last year. Hi-Crush Inc., based in Houston, is selling off the Whitehall sand ...