Mississippi River

ST. PAUL — Mark Nichols, a retired occupational safety expert, almost couldn't believe what he was hearing, though he trusted his confidential source. In late June, a car from a Union Pacific railroad train had partially derailed overnight near the Mississippi River in St. Paul,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Authorities began to clean up after a northeastern Iowa ethanol train derailment Thursday morning, at about the same time that rail safety advocates renewed calls to get rid of old, less safe rail tank cars that commonly carry crude oil through Minnesota and North...

FARGO — Upper Great Plains wheat farmers probably have little to fear from concerns about toxins in soft red winter wheat east of the Mississippi River, experts say. Max Hawkins, a nutritionist with Alltech’s Mycotoxin Management Team in Lexington, Ky., warns that excessive rains...

Mining for sand used in the hydraulic fracturing process has become a hot topic in Minnesota and state leaders in North Dakota are paying attention. With the Bakken Formation receiving much of its sand used for fracking from neighboring states to the east like Minnesota and Wisconsin,...