A Washington, D.C., man has been indicted on
charges of causing a forest fire last year that burned nearly 120 square miles along the Gunflint Trail in northeastern Minnesota.
Flood waters have returned to the Red River Valley. Some areas along the Minn.-N.D. border have received up to ten inches of rain since the beginning of September.
Bicycle commuting is up by double-digit numbers in Minneapolis, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. However, there is a downside to having more bike commuters. Already this year, bike fatalities in Minnesota are more than double what they were for all of last year.
The new I-35W bridge opened this morning, less than 14 months after the old span collapsed into the Mississippi River. For drivers, what used to be a routine trip before the collapse, was -- at least for today -- anything but routine.
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