A thunderous boom and a large billow of dark-gray smoke rising in the air marked the quick demise of steel beams that had ...

Engineers plan to start removal of the Rapidan Dam in 2027, after it failed during major flooding last year. The process of taking down the dam would continue through 2028, according to a preliminary ...

Multiple explosions demolished the County Road 9 bridge near the Rapidan Dam after last summer's breach that led to the dam's ...

In his first public visit to Mankato after his run for vice president, Gov. Tim Walz braved the afternoon cold on Thursday to return to Rapidan Dam and outline his 2025 bonding proposals. His $887 ...

The county said that explosive charges were used both to make that process quicker and to ensure the safety of workers, as it ...

MANKATO — An engineering firm hired Tuesday to design the demise of the Rapidan Dam expects it to disappear by the end of 2028 — 118 years after the structure was completed southwest of Mankato.

Contractors blew up the remnants of a damaged southern Minnesota bridge that nearly collapsed during heavy rains last summer ...

A Twin Cities engineering firm hired to design the demise of the Rapidan Dam expects it to disappear by the end of 2028 — 118 years after the structure was completed southwest of Mankato, Minn.

Faced with the task of replacing a flood-damaged bridge, and removing a breached dam, county officials face the prospect of ...

In his first public visit to Mankato after his run for vice president, Gov. Tim Walz braved the afternoon cold on Thursday to return to the Rapidan Dam and outline his 2025 bonding proposals.

Residents had used the roughly 40-year-old bridge to commute across the dam from rural patches of land ... forcing the removal of a beloved store. Mankato is about 80 miles south of Minneapolis.