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Greater Minnesota

Teen charged in suspected synthetic drug death

A teenage boy is the latest to face charges in a death that investigators have linked to synthetic drugs.
by The Associated Press

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Duluth, Superior mayors support oil pipeline expansion

Duluth Mayor Don Ness on Wednesday waded into the controversy over the growing web of oil pipelines across northern Minnesota as he endorsed Enbridge Energy's pipeline expansion plans.
by Dan Kraker

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Pellet gun killed wolf that fled Isle Royale park

Pellet gun killed wolf that fled Isle Royale park

Scientists who study the park's wolves and moose say the wolf was a loner and had been attacked by other wolves before escaping this winter across a Lake Superior ice bridge.
by Dan Kraker

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Fargo police investigating death as homicide

Lt. Joel Vettel tells KFGO radio that the man's body was discovered behind the Bison Center Strip Mall about 1 a.m. Friday.
by The Associated Press

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Crews soak up oil along tracks in SE Minn.

Crews have placed oil-absorbing booms and sandbags along railroad tracks in southeastern Minnesota to soak up oil that leaked out of a tanker car last month.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Critics of PolyMet mine want state to extend comment period

Critics of PolyMet mine want state to extend comment period

The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness last week sent letters to the state Department of Natural Resources and the federal agencies overseeing the study, citing missing data associated with the nearly 2,200-page document.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Minn. teen dies after running from busted party

Authorities in west central Minnesota have identified a high school student who died after apparently fleeing from police at a weekend party.
by Tim Nelson

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Sunken Great Lakes oil pipeline raises spill fears

Sunken Great Lakes oil pipeline raises spill fears

The Straits of Mackinac is drawing attention for something that is out of sight and usually out of mind, and which some consider a symbol of the dangers lurking in the nation's sprawling web of buried oil and natural gas pipelines.
by John Flesher, Associated Press

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