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Disasters

Aerial photos of the fire in BWCA

Aerial photos of the fire in BWCA

Fire raging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness continues to spread. Authorities now estimate that the wildfire in northern Minnesota has engulfed about 100,000 acres -- about ten times its reported size just 24 hours ago.

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Photos: The Pagami Creek fire in NE Minn.

Photos: The Pagami Creek fire in NE Minn.

A forest fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness exploded in size in recent days as weather conditions have done little to slow its growth.

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Recollections of 9/11

Recollections of 9/11

Minnesotans recollect where they were when they first heard of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
by Molly Bloom

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Gov. Dayton on 9/11 and the decade since

On Sunday, it will be ten years to the day since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. All this week we've been looking at what's changed over the course of the difficult decade that followed. In 2001, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton was a U.S. Senator. He was in Washington on the day of the attacks.

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Terrorist threat "specific, credible," NYC mayor Bloomberg says

Terrorist threat "specific, credible," NYC mayor Bloomberg says

Just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. counterterrorism officials were chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

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