Disasters

Grateful Ely watches, regroups after wildfire
Residents of Ely are regrouping after an extremely close call Thursday after a wildfire burned to within a couple hundred yards of the Iron Range town's southeastern edge.
After the Mpls. tornado, herons find a new home
It was just about a year ago that a tornado struck north Minneapolis, causing the deaths of two residents and millions of dollars in damage. Another casualty was a great blue heron rookery on an island in the Mississippi River. This week, MPR's Tom Crann took a tour of the herons' new home on a different island, and learned they're doing just fine.
Fire near Ely slowing down
As firefighters continue to battle the wildfire south of Ely, authorities have lifted the evacuation order within city limits.
Workers with the U.S. Postal Service will deliver empty pill bottles to homes in the metro area Sunday in a drill to test how well they can deliver medicine in the event of a terror attack.
Police say former NFL star Junior Seau has been found dead in an apparent suicide at his home in Southern California.
Washington County Sheriff's Cmdr. Brian Mueller says his department dealt with its first case over the weekend.
A long legal battle for the families of four young people who died in a train crash in Anoka is over after the railroad decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.