Tim Nelson
Reporter
Minnesota Public Radio
timnelson@mpr.org
(651) 290-1393
Tim Nelson is a general assignment reporter for Minnesota Public Radio and has covered education and the Republican National Convention for MPR. He is a 20-year veteran of newspapers across the Upper Midwest. He spent the 16 years at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where he covered city government. He has also covered crime, written a recreation page and produced blogs and podcasts. A native of Coon Rapids, Minn., Nelson attended Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Minnesota. He's an avid runner and once swam across lake Minnetonka. He lives in St. Paul with his wife, Erika, daughter Emma and son Gunnar.
Tim Nelson Feature Archive
The search for answers in a fatal bus crash in southern Minnesota continued Friday as investigators continued looking at whether the bus had any equipment failures.
(11/20/2009)
The California venture capitalist who says he plans to bring a billion-dollar bio-science park on a former elk farm in southeastern Minnesota said Friday it's going slower than he hoped.
(11/20/2009)
The probe into the bus crash that killed two people and injured 20 others continues in southeast Minnesota today. Inspectors are combing over the damaged bus at a garage in Austin. But attention has also turned to the company that owns the bus, and whether it was following motor carrier regulations.
(11/20/2009)
Investigators said they could not confirm the bus company's claim that the driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm in his chest that might have caused a tour bus accident Wednesday afternoon near Austin, Minn.
(11/19/2009)
Authorities will get a better look today at the tour bus that flipped over on Interstate 90 yesterday afternoon near Austin, Minnesota. The crash killed two people and injured 21 others, with some in critical condition. The group was on the way back to Rochester, after a trip to the Diamond Jo casino in Northwood, Iowa.
(11/19/2009)
Authorities have found the body of a pilot whose plane crashed in a remote area of Clearwater County as he headed north to go deer hunting.
(11/18/2009)
St. Paul police say they're investigating a series of apparent random assaults by a group of young men in the Twin Cities, videotaped and posted to YouTube.
(11/17/2009)
An effort to hear from the public on the scandal surrounding the now-defunct Metro Gang Strike Force will release its findings Thursday and two groups say using databases is one way of keeping track of criminal gang activity.
(11/12/2009)
One of the Minnesota soldiers wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood will soon be back training to go to Iraq.
(11/09/2009)
Monday, Nov. 9 marks the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of Josh Guimond, a St. John's University student from Maple Lake.
(11/09/2009)
A 23-year-old soldier from St. Paul was among the 13 people killed at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, his family said Friday.
(11/06/2009)
Forest Lake schools were locked down briefly this morning, after a staff member reportedly sighted an unknown person on campus around 8 o'clock.
(11/06/2009)
Hydropower helped turn Minneapolis into a 19th century industrial giant, and the city is turning to the river again for power.
(11/05/2009)
A long-standing ritual of homeowners - sealing their blacktop driveways - is getting new scrutiny from the state of Minnesota because sealant from driveways and parking lots may be washing off into ponds and streams as hazardous waste.
(11/02/2009)
The $30 million project is the latest improvement to the freeway corridor that runs past the Mall of America.
(10/30/2009)