June 20, 2012 - Craig Sanders, a retired meteorologist who lives in Duluth, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding, bailing out water from his house. He also comments on the job meteorologists have to do.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Don Ness, mayor of Duluth, about conditions of city in the aftermath of extrodinary rainfall in a 24-hour period. Ness declared a state of emergency today.
June 20, 2012 - Rob Skutevik, a pastor of the Fond du Lac Community Church, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding. He and his family left with the water lapping up his front steps, and those of the church next door.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Kraker interviews residents in Duluth about their experiences during intense rainstorm and subsequent flooding.
June 20, 2012 - Nicole Kor, a student at University of Minnesota Duluth, talks about escaping from her basement apartment last night.
July 24, 2013 - A landslide killed two of the students and injured two others as they hunted fossils at the base of a Mississippi River bluff. Now, some of their parents, speaking publicly for the first time, say teachers at Peter Hobart Elementary School should have provided more information about the nature of the park.
July 23, 2015 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson investigates railroad bridge safety concerns in Minnesota. More than 330 railroad bridges pass over freeways, highways, and streets in Minnesota. Last year state and local inspectors determined that one in five of those was structurally deficient.
September 14, 2016 - On this MPR News with Tom Weber program, Ken Merryman discusses hunting for shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Merryman and others discovered the Antelope, a Great Lakes steamship, that sank in Lake Superior in 1897.
April 17, 2017 - MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar reports on the repeated flooding conditions found in the Red River Valley. Dunbar interviews several scientists who have studied climate and hydrology in the Red River basin.
June 14, 2017 - MPR’s Matt Sepic reports on struggle some mobile home park tenants face in getting a state law required storm shelter on park grounds. Segment includes interviews with tenants, landlord, advocacy group member, and government official.